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released. The
leaves rustled again but he was too worn out to run. They would want the clothes
as well as the money, he told himself, and there was no reason to prolong any of
it. His trembling fingers clasped the shirt’s top button, pushed it through the
slit in the chambray.

About
the Author

    Author photograph by Mark Haskett
    RON RASH is the author of The Cove and of the 2009 PEN/Faulkner finalist and New York Times bestselling novel Serena, in addition to three other prizewinning
novels, One Foot in Eden, Saints at the River, and The World Made Straight ; four collections of
poems; and four 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
    Nothing Gold Can Stay
    The Cove
    Burning Bright
    Serena
    The World Made Straight
    Saints at the River
    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

Copyright
    This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
    MY FATHER LIKE A RIVER . Copyright © 2013 by Ron Rash. Excerpt from NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY . Copyright © 2013 by Ron Rash. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
    FIRST ECCO SOLO EDITION
    Epub Edition February 2013 ISBN: 9780062261960
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