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Title	:	The World Made Straight
Author	:	Ron Rash
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 289 pages
Published	:	March 20th 2007 by Picador USA (first published April 4th 2006)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. American. Southern

The World Made Straight

Ron Rash

Paperback | Pages: 289 pages

Rating: 3.87 | 2501 Users | 294 Reviews

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Travis Shelton is seventeen the summer he wanders into the woods onto private property outside his North Carolina hometown, discovers a grove of marijuana large enough to make him some serious money, and steps into the jaws of a bear trap. After hours of passing in and out of consciousness, Travis is discovered by Carlton Toomey, the wise and vicious farmer who set the trap to protect his plants, and Travis's confrontation with the subtle evils within his rural world has begun.


Before long, Travis has moved out of his parents' home to live with Leonard Shuler, a one-time schoolteacher who lost his job and custody of his daughter years ago, when he was framed by a vindictive student. Now Leonard lives with his dogs and his sometime girlfriend in a run-down trailer outside town, deals a few drugs, and studies journals from the Civil War. Travis becomes his student, of sorts, and the fate of these two outsiders becomes increasingly entwined as the community's terrible past and corrupt present bear down on each of them from every direction, leading to a violent reckoning—not only with Toomey, but with the legacy of the Civil War massacre that, even after a century, continues to divide an Appalachian community.


Vivid, harrowing yet ultimately hopeful, The World Made Straight is Ron Rash's subtlest exploration yet of the painful conflict between the bonds of home and the desire for independence.

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Original Title:	The World Made Straight
ISBN:	0312426607 (ISBN13: 9780312426606)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	ALA Alex Award (2007)

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Ratings: 3.87 From 2501 Users | 294 Reviews

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Perhaps not as good as some of his other books, but an enjoyable story nevertheless, and Rash is rapidly climbing up in the ranks of my favorite authors. I like his pace and voice, and the fact that he describes a world I am more familiar with than many books I read. All of the characters are deeply flawed, kind of like the people who inhabited the area and fought a vicious civil war within the Civil War in the Appalachians. The characters are not one dimensional though and have some depth. With

When we were teens in Atlanta, my brother was a wayward hellraiser with a head full of ideas. Even though we were modern kids, the shadows of the Civil War still touched us in various enigmatic ways. He and I agree that very few artists have captured that essence, but he said Ron Rash nailed some of it in World Made Straight. He also said Rash created a character that reminded him of his teen self. So I was eager to check it out. My brother sent it to me.It's a lovely, unusual book, told in a

Radiant, devastating and compelling. Beautifully written...

The images this guy brings to mind are just gorgeous. While I didn't feel the same attachment to any of the characters, except one, as I did in "Serena" and in "Eden," the old journal entries and the beautiful gospel voice of one of them grabbed me tight. A disconsolate young teacher, a boy setting off on the wrong path, and the hangover of a two-sided war will together grab you like a bear trap on the ankle. Big suspense and a Plott hound to boot. The settings for his tales, however, show off

Like several of Rash's other novels, The World Made Straight is based on one of his short stories. The others I've read have all been successes. This one, not so much. While the writing was competent, the story too often felt forced and contrived.In addition, Rash's efforts to develop the Civil War theme, which focused on the struggle between two Southern factions (literally neighbor fighting neighbor), failed. Instead of adding to the story, it became a distraction. Furthermore, the plot was

Disclaimer: I think Ron Rash is one of the greatest living short story writers in America.Some writers seem to be able to bring their skills to whatever they set down to write. Russell Banks has produced several notable short stories and yet also managed to produce the 700+ page historical fiction masterpiece "Cloudsplitter" A writer like Rash with an impressive resume of short fiction stumbles so often in his novels that it's hard to believe you're reading the same author. I've read "The Cove"

This is a good novel to read right now. It certainly doesn't address racism in the South, but it does address the supposed legacy of honor and tradition in the Confederacy by examining how neighbor turned on neighbor in mountain counties which were often intensely divided on the subject of secession. Apparently, once the Confederacy was established, massacres of dissenting communities by their former friends and even relatives were common, and the present-day legacy of one such event is at the