Chemistry and Other Stories
Publisher: Picador
Published: March 29, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780312425081
Subjects: Short stories; Short Story; Fiction; Fiction - General; Short Stories (single author); Fiction / Short Stories (single author); Appalachian Region
Description: Rash returns to short fiction with 13 snapshots of contemporary Appalachia. There are double-wide trailers, aging cars and lost souls "resigned to bad times and trouble," but there's also, in "Honesty," a lit professor struggling to get out from under his rich, cynical wife. In the title story, a chemistry teacher prescribed Elavil and shock treatments for a "chemical imbalance" seeks emotional ballast in the backwoods evangelical religion of his youth.