Das frisch verheiratete Paar George und Serena Pemberton kommt 1929 in den Bergen von North Carolina an, um dort sein gemeinsames Leben zu beginnen. Und eine Frau wie Serena haben die Männer dort noch nicht gesehen, sie geht auf Schlangenjagd und rettet sogar ihrem Mann in der Wildnis das Leben, ungewöhnlich für eine Frau dieser Zeit. Doch als Serena erfährt, dass sie niemals ein Kind zur Welt bringen wird, schlägt sie einen Weg ein, der das Leben der abgeschiedenen Gesellschaft für immer verändern wird. Für Leser von 'Cold Mountain' und 'Snow Falling on Cedars'.

Informationen zum Autor 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 Klappentext George and Serena Pemberton arrive in the wilds of the North Carolina mountains to build a life together in a rural logging town. But Serena Pemberton is unlike any woman this town has ever seen: overseeing crews, hunting rattlesnakes and even saving her husband in the wilderness. So when Serena learns that she will never bear a child, she is determined that her intensely passionate marriage will not unravel. A course of events unfolds that will change the lives of everyone in their rural community and bring this riveting tale of love and revenge to its shocking reckoning. A major motion picture starring Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence and Rhys Ifans Zusammenfassung A major motion picture starring Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence and Rhys Ifans

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A major motion picture starring Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence and Rhys Ifans

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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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George and Serena Pemberton arrive in the wilds of the North Carolina mountains to build a life together in a rural logging town. But Serena Pemberton is unlike any woman this town has ever seen: overseeing crews, hunting rattlesnakes and even saving her husband in the wilderness. So when Serena learns that she will never bear a child, she is determined that her intensely passionate marriage will not unravel. A course of events unfolds that will change the lives of everyone in their rural community and bring this riveting tale of love and revenge to its shocking reckoning.

Zusammenfassung
A major motion picture starring Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence and Rhys Ifans