num_pages: 230
description: Chemistry and Other Stories, A Picador Paperback OriginalFrom the pre-eminent chronicler of this forgotten territory, stories that range over one hundred years in the troubled, violent emergence of the New South.In Ron Rash's stories, spanning the entire twentieth century in Appalachia, rural communities struggle with the arrival of a new era.Three old men stalk the shadow of a giant fish no one else believes is there. A man takes up scuba diving in the town reservoir to fight off a killing depression. A grieving mother leads a surveyor into the woods to name once and for all the county where her son was murdered by thieves.In the Appalachia of Ron Rash's stories, the collision of the old and new south, of antique and modern, resonate with the depth and power of ancient myths.
language: English
title: Chemistry and Other Stories
titlecomplete: Chemistry and Other Stories
genres: Short Stories, Short Story Collection, Southern, Literary Fiction, Southern Gothic, The United States Of America, Fiction
ratings_count: 683
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award
publisher: Picador