Above the Waterfall

A writer's writer who writes for others -- Colum McCann
A gorgeous, brutal writer -- Richard Price
One of the great American authors at work today -- Janet Maslin * * New York Times * *
Ron Rash is a writer of both the darkly beautiful and the sadly true . . . One of our very finest novelists -- Richard Russo
Magnificent is suddenly too small a word * * Irish Times * *
Finds a narrow sweet spot between Raymond Carver and William Faulkner. * * Washington Post * *
Rash's prose is elegant, suggestive, and Hardyesque. * * Boston Globe * *
Combining suspense with acute observations and flashing insights, Rash tells a seductive and disquieting tale about our intrinsic attachment to and disastrous abuse of the land and our betrayal of our best selves * * Starred Booklist * *
Alternates between traditional prose and a poetic voice * * Wall Street Journal * *
The book begins as a lyrical, far-reaching reflection on nature and modern-day loneliness . . . Beneath the surface, the novel contemplates more timeless questions about human frailty, the divinity of nature and the legacies of our native landscapes . . . A hybrid of prose poetry, nature writing and literary mystery . . . Exhilarating and beguiling * * Atlanta Journal * *