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History of the Rain

CD - unabridged
(10 CDs)
Product Number: CX2696
Released: 01 Sep, 2014
Business Term: Purchase
ISBN: #9781471268885
Narrator(s): Jennifer McGrath
Publisher: W F Howes
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Description

We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. In Faha, County Clare, everyone is a long story... Bedbound in her attic room beneath the falling rain, Plain Ruth Swain is in search of her father. To find him Ruthie must first trace the jutting jaw lines, narrow faces and gleamy skin of the Swains from the restless Reverend Swain, her great-grandfather, to her father, Virgil - via pole-vaulting, leaping salmon, poetry and the three thousand, nine hundred and fifty eight books piled high beneath the two skylights in her room.

Author(s): Niall Williams
Awards:Longlisted for the Man Booker 2014
Original Publish Date: 01 Sep, 2014

All Formats/Editions

Playaway
x-large
Author(s): Niall Williams
Narrator(s): Jennifer McGrath
Product Number D3271
Released: 01 Dec, 2014
Business Term: Purchase
Publisher: W F Howes
ISBN: #9781471274701
MP3 CD
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Author(s): Niall Williams
Narrator(s): Jennifer McGrath
Product Number MPCD479
Released: 01 Sep, 2014
Business Term: Purchase
Publisher: W F Howes
ISBN: #9781471268557

Professional reviews

"Nominated for the Man Booker Prize ‘Extremely moving, poignantly capturing Ruth's doomed childhood relationship with her twin brother. By the final chapter I was weeping’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘A rambling, soft-hearted Irish family saga stuffed with eccentricity, literature, anecdotes, mythology, humour and heartbreak’ KIRKUS"

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