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Hard Rain Falling

By Don Carpenter

Hard Rain Falling Contemporary literature

Hard Rain Falling

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A hardboiled novel about life in the American underground, from the pool halls of Portland to the cells of San Quentin. Simply one of the finest books ever written about being down on your luck. Don Carpenter's Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down for good-a Dostoyevskian tale of crime, punishment, and the pursuit of an ever-elusive redemption. The novel follows the adventures of Jack Levitt, an orphaned teenager living off his wits in the fleabag hotels and seedy pool halls of Portland, Oregon. Jack befriends Billy Lancing, a young black runaway and pool hustler extraordinaire. A heist gone wrong gets Jack sent to reform school, from which he emerges embittered by abuse and solitary confinement. In the meantime Billy has joined the middle class-married, fathered a son, acquired a business and a mistress. But neither Jack nor Billy can escape their troubled pasts, and they will meet again in San Quentin before their strange double drama comes to a violent and revelatory end.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
336
Release Date:
2009-09-08
Publication Date:
2009-09-08
Publisher:
New York Review of Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1590173244
ISBN13:
9781590173244
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
340 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
205 cm
Thickness:
24 cm
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