{"product_id":"small-rain-9780374279547","title":"Small Rain","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the PEN Oakland\/Josephine Miles Literary Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLong-listed for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e, and more\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA\u003ci\u003e New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e Recommended Read of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA New York Public Library, Los Angeles Public Library, and Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA poet's 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eSmall Rain\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Garth Greenwell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/03\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.49h x 5.70w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374279547\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2024 pg. 3\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/15\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2024 pg. 32\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGarth Greenwell\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of two previous works of fiction, \u003ci\u003eCleanness \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWhat Belongs to You\u003c\/i\u003e. The recipient of honors including 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45022612586611,"sku":"9780374279547","price":27.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_39f101d4-2507-4033-95b6-01bccab7e937.jpg?v=1779278442","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/small-rain-9780374279547","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}