Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award Long-listed for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Financial Times, New Statesman, and more A New Yorker Recommended Read of the Year A New York Public Library, Los Angeles Public Library, and Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year A 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…mehr
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award Long-listed for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Financial Times, New Statesman, and more A New Yorker Recommended Read of the Year A New York Public Library, Los Angeles Public Library, and Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year A 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.
Garth Greenwell is the author of What Belongs to You, which won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year, was longlisted for the National Book Award, and was a finalist for six other awards, including the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, it was named a Best Book of 2016 by over fifty publications in nine countries, and is being translated into a dozen languages. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, A Public Space, and VICE, and he has written criticism for The New Yorker, the London Review of Books, and the New York Times Book Review, among others. He lives in Iowa City.
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Small Rain reads like the work of a born novelist Financial Times
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