The Caretaker Signed Bookplate Edition

With each Ron Rash story, you expect flawed people trying desperately to survive against the odds and a rich sense of place, and images that linger, and beautiful language that you catch yourself reading over and over. What you don't always expect is a wicked plot. The Caretaker delivers all of the above in a story that becomes a race to the finish -- JOHN GRISHAM
There's a flint and an unflinching realism underneath . . . Rash's 20th book is among his best * * Kirkus Reviews * *
Hard to put down . . . [Ron Rash] may be regionally focused in his fiction, but his works tap deep veins of human nature and national strife * * Independent * *
Potent and rewarding . . . Rash expertly and seamlessly ratchets up the suspense and melodrama . . . The lyrically nuanced prose faithfully evokes the Appalachian landscape, and Rash again showcases an ability to dig beneath the surface of his characters to expose their base desires and intentions. This is exactly the kind of humanitarian storytelling that fans have come to expect and savour from him * * Publishers Weekly * *

Praise for Nothing Gold Can Stay:
These stories are wonderful. They give me an ache in the heart and I have to sit and look out of my window and think over and over again

-- ALICE MUNRO
Perfect! So many brilliant stories, brilliantly written . . . all moving, witty -- CLAIRE FULLER
Praise for Ron Rash: Ron Rash is a writer of both the darkly beautiful and the sadly true . . . One of our very finest novelists -- RICHARD RUSSO
One of the great American authors at work today * * New York Times * *
A riveting storyteller * * Washington Post * *
Rash's evocative rendering of the blighted landscape and the tough characters who inhabit it recalls both John Steinbeck and Cormac McCarthy * * New Yorker * *