Chemistry and Other Stories

Chemistry and Other Stories, A Picador Paperback Original

From the pre-eminent chronicler of this forgotten territory, stories that range over one hundred years in the troubled, violent emergence of the New South.

In Ron Rash's stories, spanning the entire twentieth century in Appalachia, rural communities struggle with the arrival of a new era.

Three old men stalk the shadow of a giant fish no one else believes is there. A man takes up scuba diving in the town reservoir to fight off a killing depression. A grieving mother leads a surveyor into the woods to name once and for all the county where her son was murdered by thieves.

In the Appalachia of Ron Rash's stories, the collision of the old and new south, of antique and modern, resonate with the depth and power of ancient myths.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 09/05/2000
ISBN: 9780312425081
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d
Award: PEN/Faulkner Award - Finalist

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 01/22/2007 pg. 155
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2007 pg. 147
Library Journal 04/01/2007 pg. 85
Booklist 03/01/2007 pg. 64
Men's Journal 06/01/2007 pg. 34