now in this moment the front paw is lowered in the silence of fast-filling sand the first words
and last words are printed.
I was here
Acknowledgments
Heartfelt thanks to the following for their support and input on this novel: Warren Buckner, Jim Casada, Jill Gottesman, Dan Halpern, Eleanor Kriseman, Megan Lynch, Victoria Mathews, Phil Moore, Kathy Rash, Tom Rash, Michael Radescula, Marly Rusoff, Randall Wilhelm, and Western Carolina University. Most of all thanks to Ann, Caroline, and James.
About the Author
RON RASH is the author of the 2009 PEN/Faulkner finalist and New York Times bestselling novel Serena, in addition to four other prizewinning novels, including The Cove, One Foot in Eden, Saints at the River, and The World Made Straight; four collections of poems; and six collections of stories, among them Burning Bright, which won the 2010 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, and Chemistry and Other Stories, which was a finalist for the 2007 PEN/Faulkner Award. Twice the recipient of the O. Henry Prize, he teaches at Western Carolina University.
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Also by Ron Rash
FICTION
Something Rich and Strange
The Ron Rash Reader
Nothing Gold Can Stay
The Cove
Burning Bright
Serena
The World Made Straight
One Foot in Eden
Chemistry and Other Stories
Casualties
The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth
POETRY
Waking
Raising the Dead
Among the Believers
Eureka Mill
Credits
Cover design by Allison Saltzman
Cover photograph © by David Mould
Copyright
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