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The Caretaker

English

By (author): Ron Rash

'One of the great American authors at work today' New York Times

ONE OF THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2023

It is 1951. The close-knit community of Blowing Rock, North Carolina, does not welcome those who are different.

Jacob Hampton's wealthy parents disinherited him when he married Naomi, an uneducated hotel maid from out of town. They had bigger plans for him.

Now Jacob has been called up to fight in Korea, leaving a pregnant Naomi behind. The only person he can entrust to take care of her is his lifelong friend, Blackburn Gant. Blackburn, who tends the local cemetery alone, is an outsider too, his appearance irrevocably altered by childhood disease.

Slowly the two outcasts grow closer, their friendship blooming under small acts of kindness. Then, as they await news of Jacob's return, a terrible, shattering act of deception derails all their lives. But no secret can stay hidden for ever.

Tender and luminous with truth, The Caretaker is a riveting story about the bonds of friendship, the contradictions of family and what it really means to love.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 388g
  • Dimensions: 144 x 220mm
  • Publication Date: 02 Nov 2023
  • Publisher: Canongate Books
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781805301653

About Ron Rash

Ron Rash is the author of the PEN/Faulkner Award 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 and winner of the 2014 Grand Prix de Littérature Policière he teaches at Western Carolina University.www.ronrashwriter.com

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