The Risen by Ron Rash5/28/2023 The Risen centers around Bill and Eugene Matney, teenage brothers living under the dictatorial reign of their grandfather, their North Carolina town’s sole physician. The result is a novel that one wants to rush to finish and to savor at the same time. The Risen, Rash takes on the noir tradition of crime fiction with a tightly-plotted whodunnit rendered in literary language. Through his short fiction and novels such as Serena and The World Made Straight, he has demonstrated a mastery of language, both poetic and colloquial, and a thorough understanding of his native Appalachia, from the timber barons of the early 20th century to the meth labs of the 21st. Ron Rash has carved out a niche of his own among the storied tradition of southern literature.
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