{"product_id":"serena-9780061470844","title":"Serena","description":"A \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ebestseller and PEN\/Faulkner Award Finalist, \u003cem\u003eSerena \u003c\/em\u003eby award-winning author Ron Rash is \"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003emasterfully written...\u003c\/strong\u003esprawling, engrossing and--from time to time--nightmarish,\" (\u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e); a remarkable novel that \"recalls both John Steinbeck and Cormac McCarthy,\" (\u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e). Rash's chilling gothic tale of greed, corruption, and revenge set against the backdrop of the 1930s wilderness and America's burgeoning environmental movement was named a Best Book of the Year by more than a dozen national publications, including the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eand Miami Herald. Serena \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eis brilliant contemporary fiction that exquisitely balances beauty and violence, passion and rage, cruelty and love.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRash, Ron:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eRon Rash is the author of the 2009 PEN\/Faulkner finalist and \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller \u003cem\u003eSerena\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAbove the Waterfall\u003c\/em\u003e, in addition to four prizewinning novels, including \u003cem\u003eThe Cove, One Foot in Eden, Saints at the River\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe World Made Straight\u003c\/em\u003e; four collections of poems; and six collections of stories, among them \u003cem\u003eBurning Bright\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the 2010 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, and \u003cem\u003eChemistry and Other Stories\u003c\/em\u003e, which was a finalist for the 2007 PEN\/Faulkner Award. Twice the recipient of the O. Henry Prize, he teaches at Western Carolina University.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50616692244754,"sku":"9780061470844","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_40d4b58b-2a51-4dcf-8d3e-8bfe59624057.jpg?v=1756797607","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/serena-9780061470844","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}