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Burning Author: Ron Rush Translator: Yao Renjie People's Literature Publishing House
Burning Author: Ron Rush Translator: Yao Renjie People's Literature Publishing House
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🔥This is a masterpiece of short stories by Ron Rush, a representative writer of contemporary American Southern literature and winner of the Sherwood Anderson Award, the Appalachian Book of the Year Award, and the O. Henry Short Story Award;
🔥Winner of the 2010 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, "an incredibly well-crafted work";
🔥This collection of twelve dark, chilling yet brilliant stories weaves together a captivating and soul-stirring literary landscape;
🔥Among them, "Up the Mountain" was selected as "Best American Short Stories", "Wild Places" was selected as "Best New Southern American Novels", and "Into the Canyon" won the 2010 O. Henry Award;
🔥A classic short novel with a great reputation. The old version scored 8.8 points on Douban. Many readers were eagerly waiting for it. It was finally reprinted after a decade.
"Burning" is an absolutely beautiful work of writing technique, an incredibly finely crafted work. This is a very quiet novel in many ways. The author tends to compress a terrible fate into her words and then speaks of it in a very calm way. - 2010 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award Jury
"Burning" is a succinct yet menacing portrayal of the brutal lifestyle of the Appalachian Mountains in the American South, finding a sweet spot between the minimalism of Raymond Carver and the gothic of William Faulkner. - The Washington Post
Ron Rush is a quiet writer with a striking sense of beauty... The novels in Burning are beautiful. Each story is brilliant, perfectly constructed, and the prose is both poetic and sure-footed. - The Huffington Post
Ron Rush's writing reminds us of both John Steinbeck and Cormac McCarthy. --The New Yorker
Ron Rush can bring a character to life in one sentence, and this is the best short story in America. ——The Times
About the Author
Ron Rash (1953- ) is a contemporary American poet and novelist. He is currently the Paris Distinguished Professor of Appalachian Cultural Studies at Western Carolina University, where he teaches poetry and fiction writing in the English Department.
Rush was born in South Carolina, spent his childhood in North Carolina, and graduated from Gardner-Webb University and Clemson University. In 1994, he published his first collection of short stories, The Night the New Jesus Was Born, and has continued to write since then. So far, he has published seven novels, six collections of short stories, and four collections of poetry, and has won numerous awards and honors.
Rush's literary works have been highly praised by critics. He has won the General Electric Young Writers Award, the Sherwood Anderson Award, the Appalachian Book of the Year Award, twice won the O. Henry Short Story Award, and was shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award twice for his short story collection "Chemistry" and the novel "Salina".
