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From the New York Times bestseller comes a haunting novel with the poetic quality of William Faulkner. This novel is a poetic journey into the wilderness of the heart.

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Nothing else comes so I set the notebook beside me. What else is here? I ask myself and listen. This section of stream purls and riffles amid small stones. What word might be made for what I hear . . .

Les Clary´s final case has broken the still surface of his backwater town.
Becky, a park ranger with her own mysterious past, shares Les´s consolation in the natural world that lies just beyond their hopelessly broken town. As Les and Becky explore of the county´s lyrically beautiful landscape, they finds themselves led deeper into the heart of the town´s corruption, and into the darkness of their own ruptured histories.
This haunting novel is a poetic journey into the wilderness of the heart.

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A writer´s writer who writes for others Colum McCann

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Rash, Ron
Ron Rash is an award-winning poet, short-story writer and novelist. His novels include The Cove, The World Made Straight and New York Times bestseller and 2009 PEN/Faulkner finalist, Serena, now a major motion picture. He is also the author of several short story collections including Nothing Gold Can Stay, Burning Bright, winner of the 2010 Frank O´Connor International Short Story Award, and Chemistry and Other Stories, a finalist for the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award. He lives in the Appalachian Mountains, USA.

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