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The caretaker : a novel / Ron Rash.

Rash, Ron, 1953- (author.).

Summary:

"A novel about Blackburn Gant, the caretaker of a hilltop cemetery in North Carolina whose best friend is drafted into the Korean war, leaving his young wife Naomi in Blackburn's care"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780385544276 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 252 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Doubleday, [2023]
Subject: Cemeteries > Fiction.
Dysfunctional families > Fiction.
Korean War, 1950-1953 > Veterans > Fiction.
Male friendship > Fiction.
Man-woman relationships > Fiction.
Nineteen fifties > Fiction.
Postpoliomyelitis syndrome > Patients > Fiction.
Blowing Rock (N.C.) > Fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.
Novels.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Cookstown Branch FIC Rash 31681010340693 FICTION Available -

RON RASH is the author of the PEN/Faulkner finalist and New York Times bestselling novel Serena, in addition to the critically acclaimed novels The Risen, Above the Waterfall, The Cove, One Foot in Eden, Saints at the River, and The World Made Straight; five collections of poems; and seven collections of stories, among them Burning Bright, which won the 2010 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, Nothing Gold Can Stay, a New York Times bestseller, and Chemistry and Other Stories, which was a finalist for the 2007 PEN/Faulkner Award. Three times the recipient of the O. Henry Prize, his books have been translated into seventeen languages. He teaches at Western Carolina University.


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