Dry Rain

by Pete Fromm

Book Overview

A memorable collection of stories about family, love, fealty, commitment, and heroism, all set against the backdrop of the everyday people of the American West, ""Dry Rain" is a work of art" ("Men's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558215549
• ISBN13: 9781558215542
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Like no other short stories

Each story is a slice of a character's life. The reader joins a life in progress. You really feel like you know the characters in just a few pages. Fromm is the best short story writer out there.

Well worth the $20, great short stories

Initmate look inside the head of a rural American man as he encounters a variety of real life situations. Characters laid out such that the reader can quickly identify with and "be" the character as he finds himself weighing the ramifications of his possible actions. Pete Fromm does a "deep dive" very quickly into his characters and allows you into his head for a slice of time.

sparse stories about life and loss

These short stories are all well rended depictions of life and how it sometimes seems to go offtrack. There is a sense of sadness that permeates the book, including the title story, about a father who is not really kidnapping his son, and says to his ex-wife-I had a life-so sad. Many good stories, with well developed characters who connect. There is an echo of Raymond Carver, moving the characters from New England to the Pacific Northwest. I have just finished reading Indian Creek Chronicles, a memoir by the same writer, and it is really worth reading, sweet, innocent, honest and revealing.