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Original Title:	Serena
ISBN:	0061470856 (ISBN13: 9780061470851)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	George Pemberton, Serena Pemberton
Setting:	North Carolina,1929(United States)
Literary Awards:	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee (2009), Weatherford Award for Fiction and Poetry (2008)

Serena

Ron Rash

Hardcover | Pages: 371 pages

Rating: 3.53 | 33078 Users | 4212 Reviews

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Title	:	Serena
Author	:	Ron Rash
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 371 pages
Published	:	October 7th 2008 by Ecco
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. American. Southern. Adult. Adult Fiction. Literary Fiction

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The year is 1929, and newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton travel from Boston to the North Carolina mountains where they plan to create a timber empire. Although George has already lived in the camp long enough to father an illegitimate child, Serena is new to the mountains—but she soon shows herself to be the equal of any man, overseeing crews, hunting rattle-snakes, even saving her husband's life in the wilderness. Together this lord and lady of the woodlands ruthlessly kill or vanquish all who fall out of favor. Yet when Serena learns that she will never bear a child, she sets out to murder the son George fathered without her. Mother and child begin a struggle for their lives, and when Serena suspects George is protecting his illegitimate family, the Pembertons' intense, passionate marriage starts to unravel as the story moves toward its shocking reckoning.

Rash's masterful balance of violence and beauty yields a riveting novel that, at its core, tells of love both honored and betrayed.

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I read the first 90 pages of this book and couldn't continue. The writing is excellent, quite impressive, really. But when each chapter brought a new form of cruelty to animals, I had to stop. Bashing in a raccoon's skull with an axe...Starving a captive eagle to bend it to your will...Baiting a field with corn and apples so you can shoot twelve deer and a bear for sport, then just leave them all piled in the middle of the field to rot after you've killed them...Are you sickened yet? I found



I started this book with high hopes, which may have been part of the problem. But the main problem is the paper-thinness of the main characters. Halfway into the book, I was still straining to figure out which name referred to which character, since none of them had been given any distinct personalities. And I think I'm supposed to admire the main characters, but hate them at the same time since they're fairly heinous? But honestly, I felt nothing besides boredom for them. They were flat and

I'm glad so many people loved this book because I certainly didn't. Early on I suspected that Serena was an escapee from Ayn Rand. I also pegged her as a really nasty piece of work--amoral, megalomaniac--take your pick. It's not hard to guess how the story will unfold but by page 185 hardly anything has happened (except my loathing for this book). The characters seem stereotyped and wooden. For a Southern book, descriptions of the landscape and terrain are pathetic. Very odd because if this book

"I think this is what the end of the world will be like," McIntyre said, and none among them raised his voice to disagree. In the primeval woods of North Carolina, young timber baron, George Pemberton, brings his bride, Serena, to live with him in his kingdom. He had been busy enough already, fathering a child with a local girl and clear-cutting wide swaths of land. Serena quickly establishes herself as a power in her own right, knowledgeable about the timber business from her family

I am constantly seeking out books with a Macbeth type theme. Unfortunately that is reeeeeaaaallly hard- There are not that many. :(I also love unlikable characters in fiction- and I adore evil soulmates...because eventually evil people "in love" will turn on one another...and THAT is when things get interesting. One will always be more evil than the other...1929- Waynesville, North Carolina-Newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton travel from Boston to the North Carolina mountains- where George

I would give this three & a half stars if I had that option. Sadly, I do not. I feel a bit shmuckish for not enjoying this book more than I did, and after some serious pondering I have come to the conclusion that I would probably have loved this book if I had a Y chromosome.Seriously.It's not that it isn't entertaining. I just couldn't really get myself to give two craps about any of the characters. And I couldn't suspend my disbelief enough to find any of it realistic. (I mean, seriously?