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- Publication Date
- 2009-09-08
- Pages
- 336
- ISBN
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1590173244
ISBN-13
9781590173244
eBay Product ID (ePID)
71619606
Product Key Features
Book Title
Hard Rain Falling
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Topic
Crime, Literary, Action & Adventure
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
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Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
11.4 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5 in
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Intended Audience
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LCCN
2009-012732
Reviews
"Tarmac-tough dialogue and road-novel deliquent action is customised with a tender intensity about both friendship and sexual passion. Often savage, never cynical, Carpenter brings gold to the grit." Boyd Tonkin, The Independent " Hard Rain Falling is a unique read; violent, tender, inexorable, and melancholic; a beat-era book of disaffected young men devoid of On the Road euphoria but more poignant and gripping for its fatalistic grounding. The small lives contained herein are indelible." Richard Price "You always hear that Don Carpenter was a writer's writer, hugely admired by critics and novelists for his brilliance and precision, but every civilian reader I know was putty in his hands once that person opened any of his astonishing novels. He could be hilarious, and he could break your heart and he could write about ego and frailty as well as anyone on earth. I loved him like crazy." --Anne Lamott "Don Carpenter is a particular favorite of mine. His first novel, Hard Rain Falling , might be my candidate for the other best prison novel in American literature." --Jonahtan Lethem "Carpenter's masterpiece, long out of print, is the definitive juvenile-delinquency novel and a damning indictment of our justice system that is still relevant today." -- George Pelecanos, The Village Voice "Carpenter's prose is all muscle and sinew." --Newsweek "Don Carpenter combines a reporter's eye for external detail with a novelist's sense of inner depts." -- Los Angeles Times " Hard Rain Falling roars through dim Western streets like an articulate Hells Angel looking for a fight... The book is tough and vital, built with slabs of hard prose." -- The New York Times " Hard Rain Falling is Last Exit to Brooklyn amended but unaltered by cries of affection under the heap of warped and busted souls." -- The New York Times "Full of lyrical evocations of a lost working-class San Francisco, the novel also contains possibly the best two-page drunken celebration of cheap, corny, vulgar, un-cleaned-up Market Street ever set in print." -- The San Francisco Chronicle "A powerful, uncompromising book, realistically written, brutal in the raw intensity of its action...highly recommended." - -Library Journal "Mr. Carpenter's debut is most auspicious. He is a serious writer." --B ook Week "Not since... Last Exit to Brooklyn has there come a first novel of such extraordinary impact. It shouts for readers." -- Cleveland Plain Dealer "He chills us with documentation...an imaginative work...boldly executed." -- The New York Times Book Review "Don Carpenter is a natural...a tough but compassionate soul...an absolutely honest writer who never strikes a false note." --Robert Brustein "Full of passionate intensity...rough and tumble picaresque." -- Charlotte Observer "A violent, action-filled...first novel by an explosive 34 year old San Francisco writer...This tough guy novel that explores an underworld is a work of real accomplishment." -- The San Francisco Chronicle, "Don Carpenter is a particular favorite of mine. His first novel,Hard Rain Falling, might be my candidate for the other best prison novel in American literature." --Jonahtan Lethem "Carpenter's masterpiece, long out of print, is the definitive juvenile-delinquency novel and a damning indictment of our justice system that is still relevant today." -- George Pelecanos,The Village Voice "Carpenter's prose is all muscle and sinew." --Newsweek "Don Carpenter combines a reporter's eye for external detail with a novelist's sense of inner depts." --Los Angeles Times "Hard Rain Fallingroars through dim Western streets like an articulate Hells Angel looking for a fight... The book is tough and vital, built with slabs of hard prose." --The New York Times "Hard Rain FallingisLast Exit to Brooklynamended but unaltered by cries of affection under the heap of warped and busted souls." --The New York Times "Full of lyrical evocations of a lost working-class San Francisco, the novel also contains possibly the best two-page drunken celebration of cheap, corny, vulgar, un-cleaned-up Market Street ever set in print." --The San Francisco Chronicle "A powerful, uncompromising book, realistically written, brutal in the raw intensity of its action...highly recommended." --Library Journal "Mr. Carpenter's debut is most auspicious. He is a serious writer." --Book Week "Not since...Last Exit to Brooklyn has there come a first novel of such extraordinary impact. It shouts for readers." --Cleveland Plain Dealer "He chills us with documentation...an imaginative work...boldly executed." --The New York Times Book Review "Don Carpenter is a natural...a tough but compassionate soul...an absolutely honest writer who never strikes a false note." --Robert Brustein "Full of passionate intensity...rough and tumble picaresque." --Charlotte Observer "A violent, action-filled...first novel by an explosive 34 year old San Francisco writer...This tough guy novel that explores an underworld is a work of real accomplishment." --The San Francisco Chronicle, "You always hear that Don Carpenter was a writer's writer, hugely admired by critics and novelists for his brilliance and precision, but every civilian reader I know was putty in his hands once that person opened any of his astonishing novels. He could be hilarious, and he could break your heart and he could write about ego and frailty as well as anyone on earth. I loved him like crazy." --Anne Lamott "Don Carpenter is a particular favorite of mine. His first novel,Hard Rain Falling, might be my candidate for the other best prison novel in American literature." --Jonahtan Lethem "Carpenter's masterpiece, long out of print, is the definitive juvenile-delinquency novel and a damning indictment of our justice system that is still relevant today." -- George Pelecanos,The Village Voice "Carpenter's prose is all muscle and sinew." --Newsweek "Don Carpenter combines a reporter's eye for external detail with a novelist's sense of inner depts." --Los Angeles Times "Hard Rain Fallingroars through dim Western streets like an articulate Hells Angel looking for a fight... The book is tough and vital, built with slabs of hard prose." --The New York Times "Hard Rain FallingisLast Exit to Brooklynamended but unaltered by cries of affection under the heap of warped and busted souls." --The New York Times "Full of lyrical evocations of a lost working-class San Francisco, the novel also contains possibly the best two-page drunken celebration of cheap, corny, vulgar, un-cleaned-up Market Street ever set in print." --The San Francisco Chronicle "A powerful, uncompromising book, realistically written, brutal in the raw intensity of its action...highly recommended." --Library Journal "Mr. Carpenter's debut is most auspicious. He is a serious writer." --Book Week "Not since...Last Exit to Brooklyn has there come a first novel of such extraordinary impact. It shouts for readers." --Cleveland Plain Dealer "He chills us with documentation...an imaginative work...boldly executed." --The New York Times Book Review "Don Carpenter is a natural...a tough but compassionate soul...an absolutely honest writer who never strikes a false note." --Robert Brustein "Full of passionate intensity...rough and tumble picaresque." --Charlotte Observer "A violent, action-filled...first novel by an explosive 34 year old San Francisco writer...This tough guy novel that explores an underworld is a work of real accomplishment." --The San Francisco Chronicle, "Tarmac-tough dialogue and road-novel deliquent action is customised with a tender intensity about both friendship and sexual passion. Often savage, never cynical, Carpenter brings gold to the grit."--Boyd Tonkin, The Independent " Hard Rain Falling is a unique read; violent, tender, inexorable, and melancholic; a beat-era book of disaffected young men devoid of On the Road euphoria but more poignant and gripping for its fatalistic grounding. The small lives contained herein are indelible." --Richard Price "You always hear that Don Carpenter was a writer's writer, hugely admired by critics and novelists for his brilliance and precision, but every civilian reader I know was putty in his hands once that person opened any of his astonishing novels. He could be hilarious, and he could break your heart and he could write about ego and frailty as well as anyone on earth. I loved him like crazy." --Anne Lamott "Don Carpenter is a particular favorite of mine. His first novel, Hard Rain Falling , might be my candidate for the other best prison novel in American literature." --Jonahtan Lethem "Carpenter's masterpiece, long out of print, is the definitive juvenile-delinquency novel and a damning indictment of our justice system that is still relevant today." -- George Pelecanos, The Village Voice "Carpenter's prose is all muscle and sinew." -- Newsweek "Don Carpenter combines a reporter's eye for external detail with a novelist's sense of inner depts." -- Los Angeles Times " Hard Rain Falling roars through dim Western streets like an articulate Hells Angel looking for a fight... The book is tough and vital, built with slabs of hard prose." -- The New York Times " Hard Rain Falling is Last Exit to Brooklyn amended but unaltered by cries of affection under the heap of warped and busted souls." -- The New York Times "Full of lyrical evocations of a lost working-class San Francisco, the novel also contains possibly the best two-page drunken celebration of cheap, corny, vulgar, un-cleaned-up Market Street ever set in print." -- The San Francisco Chronicle "A powerful, uncompromising book, realistically written, brutal in the raw intensity of its action...highly recommended." -- Library Journal "Mr. Carpenter's debut is most auspicious. He is a serious writer." -- Book Week "Not since...Last Exit to Brooklyn has there come a first novel of such extraordinary impact. It shouts for readers." -- Cleveland Plain Dealer "He chills us with documentation...an imaginative work...boldly executed." -- The New York Times Book Review "Don Carpenter is a natural...a tough but compassionate soul...an absolutely honest writer who never strikes a false note." --Robert Brustein "Full of passionate intensity...rough and tumble picaresque." -- Charlotte Observer "A violent, action-filled...first novel by an explosive 34 year old San Francisco writer...This tough guy novel that explores an underworld is a work of real accomplishment." -- The San Francisco Chronicle "Carpenter was a straight man to the more illustrious neo-Beat and -Dada artists of the era ... a steadying antidote to the counterculture bedlam of the tumultuous 1960s and beyond." --Douglas Brinkley, The New York Times, "Hard Rain Fallingis a unique read; violent, tender, inexorable, and melancholic; a beat-era book of disaffected young men devoid ofOn the Roadeuphoria but more poignant and gripping for its fatalistic grounding. The small lives contained herein are indelible." -Richard Price "You always hear that Don Carpenter was a writer's writer, hugely admired by critics and novelists for his brilliance and precision, but every civilian reader I know was putty in his hands once that person opened any of his astonishing novels. He could be hilarious, and he could break your heart and he could write about ego and frailty as well as anyone on earth. I loved him like crazy." --Anne Lamott "Don Carpenter is a particular favorite of mine. His first novel,Hard Rain Falling, might be my candidate for the other best prison novel in American literature." --Jonahtan Lethem "Carpenter's masterpiece, long out of print, is the definitive juvenile-delinquency novel and a damning indictment of our justice system that is still relevant today." -- George Pelecanos,The Village Voice "Carpenter's prose is all muscle and sinew." --Newsweek "Don Carpenter combines a reporter's eye for external detail with a novelist's sense of inner depts." --Los Angeles Times "Hard Rain Fallingroars through dim Western streets like an articulate Hells Angel looking for a fight... The book is tough and vital, built with slabs of hard prose." --The New York Times "Hard Rain FallingisLast Exit to Brooklynamended but unaltered by cries of affection under the heap of warped and busted souls." --The New York Times "Full of lyrical evocations of a lost working-class San Francisco, the novel also contains possibly the best two-page drunken celebration of cheap, corny, vulgar, un-cleaned-up Market Street ever set in print." --The San Francisco Chronicle "A powerful, uncompromising book, realistically written, brutal in the raw intensity of its action...highly recommended." --Library Journal "Mr. Carpenter's debut is most auspicious. He is a serious writer." --Book Week "Not since...Last Exit to Brooklyn has there come a first novel of such extraordinary impact. It shouts for readers." --Cleveland Plain Dealer "He chills us with documentation...an imaginative work...boldly executed." --The New York Times Book Review "Don Carpenter is a natural...a tough but compassionate soul...an absolutely honest writer who never strikes a false note." --Robert Brustein "Full of passionate intensity...rough and tumble picaresque." --Charlotte Observer "A violent, action-filled...first novel by an explosive 34 year old San Francisco writer...This tough guy novel that explores an underworld is a work of real accomplishment." --The San Francisco Chronicle, "Tarmac-tough dialogue and road-novel deliquent action is customised with a tender intensity about both friendship and sexual passion. Often savage, never cynical, Carpenter brings gold to the grit."-Boyd Tonkin, The Independent " Hard Rain Falling is a unique read; violent, tender, inexorable, and melancholic; a beat-era book of disaffected young men devoid of On the Road euphoria but more poignant and gripping for its fatalistic grounding. The small lives contained herein are indelible." -Richard Price "You always hear that Don Carpenter was a writer's writer, hugely admired by critics and novelists for his brilliance and precision, but every civilian reader I know was putty in his hands once that person opened any of his astonishing novels. He could be hilarious, and he could break your heart and he could write about ego and frailty as well as anyone on earth. I loved him like crazy." --Anne Lamott "Don Carpenter is a particular favorite of mine. His first novel, Hard Rain Falling , might be my candidate for the other best prison novel in American literature." --Jonahtan Lethem "Carpenter's masterpiece, long out of print, is the definitive juvenile-delinquency novel and a damning indictment of our justice system that is still relevant today." -- George Pelecanos, The Village Voice "Carpenter's prose is all muscle and sinew." -- Newsweek "Don Carpenter combines a reporter's eye for external detail with a novelist's sense of inner depts." -- Los Angeles Times " Hard Rain Falling roars through dim Western streets like an articulate Hells Angel looking for a fight... The book is tough and vital, built with slabs of hard prose." -- The New York Times " Hard Rain Falling is Last Exit to Brooklyn amended but unaltered by cries of affection under the heap of warped and busted souls." -- The New York Times "Full of lyrical evocations of a lost working-class San Francisco, the novel also contains possibly the best two-page drunken celebration of cheap, corny, vulgar, un-cleaned-up Market Street ever set in print." -- The San Francisco Chronicle "A powerful, uncompromising book, realistically written, brutal in the raw intensity of its action...highly recommended." -- Library Journal "Mr. Carpenter's debut is most auspicious. He is a serious writer." -- Book Week "Not since...Last Exit to Brooklyn has there come a first novel of such extraordinary impact. It shouts for readers." -- Cleveland Plain Dealer "He chills us with documentation...an imaginative work...boldly executed." -- The New York Times Book Review "Don Carpenter is a natural...a tough but compassionate soul...an absolutely honest writer who never strikes a false note." --Robert Brustein "Full of passionate intensity...rough and tumble picaresque." -- Charlotte Observer "A violent, action-filled...first novel by an explosive 34 year old San Francisco writer...This tough guy novel that explores an underworld is a work of real accomplishment." -- The San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Review Books list of resurrected classics motors from strength to strength ... Tarmac-tough dialogue and road-novel deliquent action is customised with a tender intensity about both friendship and sexual passion. Often savage, never cynical, Carpenter brings gold to the grit., "Tarmac-tough dialogue and road-novel deliquent action is customised with a tender intensity about both friendship and sexual passion. Often savage, never cynical, Carpenter brings gold to the grit."-Boyd Tonkin,The Independent "Hard Rain Fallingis a unique read; violent, tender, inexorable, and melancholic; a beat-era book of disaffected young men devoid ofOn the Roadeuphoria but more poignant and gripping for its fatalistic grounding. The small lives contained herein are indelible." -Richard Price "You always hear that Don Carpenter was a writer's writer, hugely admired by critics and novelists for his brilliance and precision, but every civilian reader I know was putty in his hands once that person opened any of his astonishing novels. He could be hilarious, and he could break your heart and he could write about ego and frailty as well as anyone on earth. I loved him like crazy." --Anne Lamott "Don Carpenter is a particular favorite of mine. His first novel,Hard Rain Falling, might be my candidate for the other best prison novel in American literature." --Jonahtan Lethem "Carpenter's masterpiece, long out of print, is the definitive juvenile-delinquency novel and a damning indictment of our justice system that is still relevant today." -- George Pelecanos,The Village Voice "Carpenter's prose is all muscle and sinew." --Newsweek "Don Carpenter combines a reporter's eye for external detail with a novelist's sense of inner depts." --Los Angeles Times "Hard Rain Fallingroars through dim Western streets like an articulate Hells Angel looking for a fight... The book is tough and vital, built with slabs of hard prose." --The New York Times "Hard Rain FallingisLast Exit to Brooklynamended but unaltered by cries of affection under the heap of warped and busted souls." --The New York Times "Full of lyrical evocations of a lost working-class San Francisco, the novel also contains possibly the best two-page drunken celebration of cheap, corny, vulgar, un-cleaned-up Market Street ever set in print." --The San Francisco Chronicle "A powerful, uncompromising book, realistically written, brutal in the raw intensity of its action...highly recommended." --Library Journal "Mr. Carpenter's debut is most auspicious. He is a serious writer." --Book Week "Not since...Last Exit to Brooklyn has there come a first novel of such extraordinary impact. It shouts for readers." --Cleveland Plain Dealer "He chills us with documentation...an imaginative work...boldly executed." --The New York Times Book Review "Don Carpenter is a natural...a tough but compassionate soul...an absolutely honest writer who never strikes a false note." --Robert Brustein "Full of passionate intensity...rough and tumble picaresque." --Charlotte Observer "A violent, action-filled...first novel by an explosive 34 year old San Francisco writer...This tough guy novel that explores an underworld is a work of real accomplishment." --The San Francisco Chronicle
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Synopsis
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., Don Carpenter's Hard Rain Falling is a tough as nails account of being down and out, but not quite down for good; a Dostoevskian tale of crime, punishment, and the pursuit of an ever-elusive redemption.
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PS3553.A76H37 2009
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- a***a (346)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseThis hardback book is of the highest quality, has a fine appearance , arrived in perfect condition, and is an excellent value. On what I was not asked about this time, communicating with the seller would have required using email outside of the eBay system, because they do not accept eBay messages, the book was well packed in a purpose-designed cardboard box, the shipping was faster than I expected for the bound media rate, and the book was exactly as described and pictured.Tameshigiri - The History and Development of Japanese Sword Testing by Sesko (#282906424466)