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Chemistry and Other Stories

by Ron Rash · 2007

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Rash returns to short fiction with 13 snapshots of contemporary Appalachia. There are double-wide trailers, aging cars and lost souls "resigned to bad times and trouble," but there's also, in "Honesty," a lit professor struggling to get out from under his rich, cynical wife. In the title story, a chemistry teacher prescribed Elavil and shock treatments for a "chemical imbalance" seeks emotional ballast in the backwoods evangelical religion of his youth.

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literary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of this
Themes
gothicgothicMore like thisLess of this
Setting
2000s2000sMore like thisLess of thisAmerican SouthAmerican SouthMore like thisLess of thisAppalachian RegionAppalachian RegionMore like thisLess of thisNorth CarolinaNorth CarolinaMore like thisLess of thisUSAUSAMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
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short storiesshort storiesMore like thisLess of this

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