EAN: 9781408852057

HISTORY OF THE RAIN - NIALL WILLIAMS KARTONIERT...

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  in the margin between this world and the next  Plain Ruth Swain is in search
of her father. To find him  enfolded in the mystery of ancestors  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 grandfather Abraham  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  beneath the rain. The stories - of her golden twin
brother Aeney  their closeness even as he slips away  of their dogged pursuit of the Swains'
Impossible Standard and forever falling just short  of the wild  rain-sodden history of
fourteen acres of the worst farming land in Ireland - pour forth in Ruthie's still  small 
strong  hopeful voice. A celebration of books  love and the healing power of the imagination 
this is an exquisite  funny  moving novel in which every sentence sings.

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