The Cove (20 page)

R
ON
R
ASH
is the author 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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F
ICTION

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

P
OETRY

Waking

Raising the Dead

Among the Believers

Eureka Mill

Credits

Cover design by Allison Saltzman

Cover photographs by Paulina Mieczkowska
(woman) and Magdalena Lutek (stream and digital composite)

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.

THE COVE.
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FIRST EDITION

ISBN 978-0-06-180419-9

EPub Edition APRIL 2012 ISBN:
9780062096906

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