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Small Rain

A Novel

Garth Greenwell
4.6
(5)
Duration
9h 55m
Year
2024
Language
English

About

Garth Greenwell is the author of What Belongs to You, which won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year, was long-listed for the National Book Award, and was a finalist for six other awards, including the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A NewYork Times Book Review Editors' Choice, it was named a Best Book of 2016 by more than fifty publications in nine countries, and has been translated into more than a dozen languages. His fiction has appeared in The NewYorker, The Paris Review, and A Public Space, and he has written nonfiction for The Guardian, the London Review of Books, and Harper's Magazine. A 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, he lives in New York City.

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Garth Greenwell's narration of his intimate third novel is breathtaking. When a searing pain sends him into the ICU in the fall of 2020, an unnamed poet endures a period of fear, loneliness, unending medical humiliations, and surprising moments of tenderness. In his hospital bed, interacting with nurses and doctors and, once a day, his partner, L., he muses on his past and future, poetry, beauty,
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