HjemGrupperSnakMereZeitgeist
Søg På Websted
På dette site bruger vi cookies til at levere vores ydelser, forbedre performance, til analyseformål, og (hvis brugeren ikke er logget ind) til reklamer. Ved at bruge LibraryThing anerkender du at have læst og forstået vores vilkår og betingelser inklusive vores politik for håndtering af brugeroplysninger. Din brug af dette site og dets ydelser er underlagt disse vilkår og betingelser.

Resultater fra Google Bøger

Klik på en miniature for at gå til Google Books

Burning Bright: Stories af Ron Rash
Indlæser...

Burning Bright: Stories (udgave 2010)

af Ron Rash

MedlemmerAnmeldelserPopularitetGennemsnitlig vurderingOmtaler
4222159,106 (4.11)42
Captures the eerie beauty, stark violence, and rugged character of Appalachia in a collection of stories that spans the Civil War to the present day.
Medlem:michaelmurphy
Titel:Burning Bright: Stories
Forfattere:Ron Rash
Info:Ecco (2010), Edition: First Edition, Hardcover, 224 pages
Samlinger:Dit bibliotek
Vurdering:*****
Nøgleord:short stories, appalachia

Work Information

Burning Bright: Stories af Ron Rash

Ingen
Indlæser...

Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog.

Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog.

» Se også 42 omtaler

Viser 1-5 af 21 (næste | vis alle)
Captivating short stories that captures the complexities of Appalachia. These stories span the Civil War to the present day and are populated by raw and unforgettable characters. I haven't been this impacted by a book of short stories since I've read A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor. The stories in this book are haunting and powerful. My favorite stories included in this collection are "Hard Times" about a man trying to stop his Chicken eggs from being stolen, "Dead Confederates" about grave robbers, "Waiting for the End of the World" about a man forced to play Freebird with his band over and over again to make rent, and "Lincolnites" where a Northern woman defends herself from a confederate solider. ( )
  ryantlaferney87 | Dec 8, 2023 |
This is the best collection of short stories I have ever read. Each one is a mini-novel, fully fleshed out, raw and bruising and intimate. Rash uses the first person in each of the stories, and that sense of listening to a person tell their own story is captivating. It is like sitting across the table from someone and having them say, “I will tell you something that happened to me, and you will wish you didn’t, but you will believe it.”

I have consciously avoided reading Ron Rash over the past four years. I read his novel, [b:Serena|2815590|Serena|Ron Rash|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1347430224l/2815590._SX50_.jpg|2841515], in 2016 and I disliked it more in retrospect than I even did when I had first finished it. I thought Rash a good writer, but I also thought he would likely not write anything that would have real appeal for me, since I had been assured by more than one person that [b:Serena|2815590|Serena|Ron Rash|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1347430224l/2815590._SX50_.jpg|2841515] was his best, his finest, and his defined style. I had another of his books sitting on my physical bookshelf and I put it, unread, in the giveaways when I moved. I am now wishing I had held on to it and given Rash another try.

Moving away from my mistakes and back to this powerful collection, I must say that Rash views the human condition from the underbelly a lot of the time. His characters are frequently already beaten down by life and social position, or they find themselves in situations that the reader realises are sure to go bad at any moment. There is a kind of tension that permeates the stories, keeping you on the edge of your seat waiting for the axe to fall, and sometimes you become so involved that you feel when it does it will fall on you and not on the fictional person at all.

Rash is also not afraid to draw on his store of literary knowledge and life experience to add reality to his stories. In the story, Free Bird, the Lynyrd Skynyrd song plays a major role and we are treated to a reference to Flem Snopes. These references made the story, and the protagonist, come alive for me. His descriptions of The Last Chance bar and its occupants were so vivid that I felt I had stumbled into the dive joint and could smell the vomit and alcohol.

The range of people and situations is wide here. Not one story mimics or recalls another. They are set in different places and different centuries, but each and every one of them works. And, the final test of a great short story for me, not one of them feels unfinished or truncated. Rash knows exactly when to get out. Taking a hint for that last line, I believe it is time I “got out” as well. Read this!


( )
  mattorsara | Aug 11, 2022 |
First time I've ever liked a book of short stories. 75% of these are great, 20% good, and 5% a bit off, but overall great. 4.5 starts ( )
  jdiggity83 | Jun 23, 2022 |
So I had just finished a read that was painful and went on forever. I needed something to get me back in balance. A book of short stories would be the thing. Something that I knew would be good. I grabbed Burning Bright by Ron Rash. I had never read anything by Ron Rash before but I had read enough about his ability to write a good short story that I was confident it would be the answer I needed. I read it in three days. Could have read it in one. It was depressing. It was sad. It was more sad. And I loved almost every bit of it. A few of the stories seemed to have a message that felt a bit too much like a sledgehammer upside the head, but otherwise the stories were simply where I wanted to be. The writing was simple. The characters were brilliantly drawn. Falling Star and Waiting for the End of the World were two of my favorites, but there were others. I find myself fully recovered. Ready to read another day. ( )
  afkendrick | Oct 24, 2020 |
A gorgeous collection. "Hard Times," the lead story, was at first my favorite. Then I read the next one, "Back of Beyond," and it became my favorite. By the time I got to "Dead Confederates," I gave up picking. Rash isn't sentimental about the South -- he loves it and he's also pretty clear-eyed. "Back of Beyond" should be a companion reading to the [a:J.D. Vance|15109469|J.D. Vance|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] best-seller, [b:Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis|29446025|Hillbilly Elegy A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis|J.D. Vance|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/books/1471374387s/29446025.jpg|47200486]. This is the same universe, though transferred to Sylva, North Carolina. So many beautiful lines -- but that really doesn't do Rash's writing justice, since it's never flashy, just right. ( )
  MaximusStripus | Jul 7, 2020 |
Viser 1-5 af 21 (næste | vis alle)
ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse

» Tilføj andre forfattere

Forfatter navnRolleHvilken slags forfatterVærk?Status
Ron Rashprimær forfatteralle udgaverberegnet
Reinharez, IsabelleTraductionmedforfatternogle udgaverbekræftet
Du bliver nødt til at logge ind for at redigere data i Almen Viden.
For mere hjælp se Almen Viden hjælpesiden.
Kanonisk titel
Oplysninger fra den engelske Almen Viden Redigér teksten, så den bliver dansk.
Originaltitel
Alternative titler
Oprindelig udgivelsesdato
Personer/Figurer
Vigtige steder
Vigtige begivenheder
Beslægtede film
Indskrift
Information fra den franske Almen Viden. Redigér teksten, så den bliver dansk.
/
Tilegnelse
Oplysninger fra den engelske Almen Viden Redigér teksten, så den bliver dansk.
For Sue Holder Rash
Første ord
Oplysninger fra den engelske Almen Viden Redigér teksten, så den bliver dansk.
Jacob stood in the barn mouth and watched Edna leave the henhouse.
Citater
Sidste ord
Oplysninger fra den engelske Almen Viden Redigér teksten, så den bliver dansk.
(Klik for at vise Advarsel: Kan indeholde afsløringer.)
Oplysning om flertydighed
Information fra den franske Almen Viden. Redigér teksten, så den bliver dansk.
Burning bright Comprend :
- Hard times ;
- Back of beyond ;
- Dead confederates ;
- Ascent ;
- Woman who believed in jaguars ;
- Burning bright ;
- Return ;
- Into the gorge ;
- Falling star ;
- Corpse bird ;
- Waiting for the end of the world ;
- Lincolnites.
Forlagets redaktører
Information fra den franske Almen Viden. Redigér teksten, så den bliver dansk.
Bagsidecitater
Oplysninger fra den engelske Almen Viden Redigér teksten, så den bliver dansk.
Originalsprog
Information fra den franske Almen Viden. Redigér teksten, så den bliver dansk.
Canonical DDC/MDS
Canonical LCC

Henvisninger til dette værk andre steder.

Wikipedia på engelsk

Ingen

Captures the eerie beauty, stark violence, and rugged character of Appalachia in a collection of stories that spans the Civil War to the present day.

No library descriptions found.

Beskrivelse af bogen
Haiku-resume

Current Discussions

Ingen

Populære omslag

Quick Links

Vurdering

Gennemsnit: (4.11)
0.5
1
1.5
2 3
2.5
3 11
3.5 3
4 41
4.5 7
5 25

Er det dig?

Bliv LibraryThing-forfatter.

 

Om | Kontakt | LibraryThing.com | Brugerbetingelser/Håndtering af brugeroplysninger | Hjælp/FAQs | Blog | Butik | APIs | TinyCat | Efterladte biblioteker | Tidlige Anmeldere | Almen Viden | 203,247,296 bøger! | Topbjælke: Altid synlig