History of the Rain

by Niall Williams

Book Overview

Longlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. That's how it seems to me, being alive for a little while, the teller and the told. So says Ruthie Swain. The bedridden daughter of a dead poet, home from college after a collapse (Something Amiss, the doctors say), she is trying to find her father through stories--and through generations of family history in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1620407701
• ISBN13: 9781620407707
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.2"