One Foot in Eden (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780312423056)

Equal parts vintage crime novel and Southern Gothic, full of aching ambivalence and hard compromises, and rounded off by bad faith and bad choices, One Foot in Eden is a veritable garden of earthly disquiet." -Los Angeles Times

Will Alexander is the sheriff in a small town in southern Appalachia, and he knows that the local thug Holland Winchester has been murdered. The only thing is the sheriff can find neither the body nor someone to attest to the killing. Simply, almost elementally told through the voices of the sheriff, a local farmer, his beautiful wife, their son, and the sheriff's deputy, One Foot in Eden signals the bellwether arrival of Ron Rash, one the most mature and distinctive voices in Southern literature.

Author: Ron Rash
ISBN-10: 0312423055
ISBN-13: 9780312423056
Publisher: Picador USA
Language: English
Published: 01/03/2004
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.26h x 5.50w x 0.59d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.2
Point Value: 10
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 88138 / One Foot in Eden: A Novel

Award: Independent Publisher Book Awards - Finalist

Review Citation(s):
Vanity Fair 01/01/2004 pg. 40
Publishers Weekly 01/12/2004 pg. 37
Library Journal 01/01/2004 pg. 160