40 pages 1 hour read

Ron Rash

Saints at the River

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

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Discuss how the novel parallels the work of a photographer with the work of a poet. Analyze moments when Rash as poet/photographer offers powerful images to enhance his narrative and create depths to his characters and his themes. 

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Analyze the effects and the impact of a first-person female narrator created by a male author. Does it matter? Does the formal technique of crossing gender to tell the story work with the narrative’s larger themes? Would a male narrator have the same impact?

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Discuss the novel’s different interpretations of the concept of resurrection.

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