“From the moment she steps off the train, Serena Pemberton commands center stage in Ron Rash’s rough-hewn tale of unchecked ambition. It is a flat-out masterpiece-mythic, terrifying, and beautiful.” - Lee Smith “Ron Rash’s SERENA will stand as one of the major American novels of this century. “A gorgeous, brutal writer.” - Richard Price, bestselling author of LUSH LIFE To my mind, this novel, as powerful and inexorable as a thunderstorm, is as good a piece of fiction as was published last year and a new classic in the category of love gone terribly wrong.” - Anna Quindlen “Beautifully written, utterly unforgettable. Julia Booksellers, Madison, CT Indie Next List Highlights 2008
Set in the Appalachian Mountains in North Carolina during the Depression, this incredible novel is about love, greed, revenge, and survival - a story told in epic proportions, complete with a Greek chorus of lumberjacks.” “Buckle your seatbelts, folks, you are in for an amazing ride. John Grooms, Park Road Books, Charlotte, NC October 2008 Indie Next List Filled with Shakespearean levels of deception, cruelty, and retribution (mountain-style), Serena speaks to current times with its portrait of modern business greed colliding with a very old land and its inhabitants.” Ambitious newlywed timber moguls George and Serena Pemberton ravage the mountain landscape while savaging their competitors and fiercely resisting allies of the budding conservation movement. “Macbeth moves to the Depression-era Great Smoky Mountains in the finest novel yet by Ron Rash.
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