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Small Rain Garth Greenwell

Small Rain By Garth Greenwell

Small Rain by Garth Greenwell

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A thrillingly gripping autobiographical novel of illness, by the acclaimed author of What Belongs To You (winner of Debut of the Year at the British Book Awards) and Cleanness.

Small Rain Summary

Small Rain by Garth Greenwell

'Marvelous: exceptionally vivid, real, and true' Colm Toibin, author of Long Island
'Fundamentally about the beauty of life' Alice Winn, author of In Memoriam
'Exquisite. Utterly mesmerizing' - Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
'A fierce beautiful novel' - Sarah Moss, author of Summerwater

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 poets 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.

'A classic, a dawn serenade, a little miracle of exigent joy. I'll be rereading it the rest of my life' - Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr!

Small Rain Reviews

Small Rain is a marvelous novel: exceptionally vivid, real, and true. Garth Greenwells sensibility is rich and generous the narrator's memories are haunting, and his experiences of both illness and love are deeply affecting. You are in the room with him. This is a true achievement, written with engaged humanity and a great command of style. -- Colm Toibin, author of Long Island
A fierce, beautiful novel about loving, living, dying, caring and being cared for. Greenwells sentences crackle with contained energy. -- Sarah Moss, author of Summerwater
Ive never read anything that so vividly captures the helplessness of a hospital stay. Greenwell weaves moments of clear-eyed misanthropy into a novel that is fundamentally about the beauty of life. Small Rain is claustrophobic, terrifying, soaringly philosophic. It will make you notice that you are alive, which is maybe the most important thing a book can do. -- Alice Winn, author of In Memoriam
Greenwell writes with exquisite precision about pain and loss but his novel is equally a meditation on joy, beauty, and above all, love. Small Rain is a triumph, one of the most deeply moving books I have read in a long time. -- Katie Kitamura, author of Intimacies
Exquisite . . . Utterly mesmerising' -- Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Greenwell writes tenderly about what it is to be subject to the crises of the body. Small Rain is a document of searching, an interrogation of love, care, and time, daring in its refusal to be abstract about the concrete facts of life and death. -- Raven Leilani, author of Luster
Small Rain is a marvel, one of Americas greatest writers working at the top of his game, moving into new territory with force and grace and wisdom and overwhelming beauty. -- Phil Klay, author of Redeployment
An exquisitely human novel which confronts death and meets it with poetry, art and love . . . An utter triumph of expression. * The Bookseller *
I just didn't put it down . . . very romantic, incredibly moving -- Miranda July
Tantalizing . . . Greenwell such a finely tuned, generous writer transforms a savage illness into a meditation on a vital life. -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Virtuosic . . . cathartic and unforgettable. Its a luminous departure from Greenwells spare and erotic earlier work -- Publishers Weekly, starred review
There's an unshowy genius to Garth Greenwell's prose that feels genuinely peerless among contemporary American novelists . . . Small Rain is a classic, a dawn serenade, a little miracle of exigent joy. I'll be rereading it the rest of my life. -- Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr!
A novel of blazing universality and grace. * New York Magazine *

About Garth Greenwell

Garth Greenwell is the author of Cleanness and What Belongs to You. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Vursell Award for prose style from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he is currently a Distinguished Writer in Residence at NYU.

Additional information

NGR9781509874699
9781509874699
1509874690
Small Rain by Garth Greenwell
Garth Greenwell
New
Hardback
Pan Macmillan
2024-09-19
320
N/A
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