Small Rain

By: Garth Greenwell

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Synopsis: 'Marvelous: exceptionally vivid, real, and true' – Colm Tóibín, author of Long Island'Fundamentally about the beauty of life' – Alice Winn, author of In Memoriam'A fierce beautiful novel' - Sarah Moss, author of SummerwaterA medical crisis brings one man close to death – and to love, art, and beauty – in a profound and luminous novel by award-winning author Garth Greenwell.A poet’s life is turned inside out by a sudden, wrenching pain. The pain brings him to his knees, and eventually to the ICU. Confined to bed, plunged into the dysfunctional American healthcare system, he struggles to understand what is happening to his body, as someone who has lived for many years in his mind.This is a searching, sweeping novel set at the furthest edges of human experience, where the forces that give life value – art, memory, poetry, music, care – are thrown into sharp relief. Time expands and contracts. Sudden intimacies bloom. Small Rain surges beyond the hospital to encompass a radiant vision of human life: our shared vulnerability, the limits and possibilities of sympathy, the ideal of art and the fragile dream of America. Above all, this is a love story of the most unexpected kind.'A classic, a dawn serenade, a little miracle of exigent joy. I'll be rereading it the rest of my life' - Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr!

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 320 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781509874682
Publisher:: Pan Macmillan
Date of Addition:: 09/18/24
Copyrighted By:: Garth Greenwell
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender
Reading Age:: 18 and up
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.

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