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Oct 5, 2008 · By Janet Maslin. Oct. 5, 2008. “Serena” is Ron Rash’s fourth novel. For those unfamiliar with the elegantly fine-tuned voice of this Appalachian poet and storyteller, a writer whose reputation...
Oct 7, 2008 · Ron Rash. 3.54. 36,109 ratings4,426 reviews. The year is 1929, and newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton travel from Boston to the North Carolina mountains where they plan to create a timber empire.
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Oct 7, 2008 · A deeply satisfying novel, both sensuously vivid and remarkably poignant. Share your opinion of this book. The latest from Rash (The World Made Straight, 2006, etc.) is a fine melodrama about a wealthy homicidal couple, latter-day Macbeths, in Depression-era Appalachia.
It was listed as #34 on the New York Times Bestseller list for Hardcover Fiction in the November 2, 2008, issue of The New York Times Book Review. [1] It has been adapted into a film by the same name starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence.
Sep 29, 2009 · 3.9 4,166 ratings. See all formats and editions. A New York Timesbestseller and PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist, Serena by award-winning author Ron Rash is “masterfully written…sprawling, engrossing and—from time to time—nightmarish,” (San Francisco Chronicle); a remarkable novel that “recalls both John Steinbeck and Cormac McCarthy ...
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Sep 29, 2009 · Reviews. Serena. About the Book. Serena. by Ron Rash. The year is 1929, and newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton travel from Boston to the North Carolina mountains where they plan to create a timber empire.
3.9 out of 5. 4,163 global ratings. Serena: A Novel. by Ron Rash. Write a review. How customer reviews and ratings work. Top positive review. Positive reviews ›. Bonnie Brody. Brilliant Portrayal of Evil and Destruction in the Backdrop of the Smoky Mountains. Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2009. This novel opens with a bang.
