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A tender and powerful novel about one man's near-death experience-a story about love, pain, art, and our obscure medical system-by the critically acclaimed author of Cleanness.
A writer has made a life for himself in Iowa. He teaches, writes when he can, and shares a home with his partner of many years. One day, a sudden and wrenching pain turns him inside out. He tries to ignore it, but it refuses to be ignored-and so he seeks medical care, eventually arriving at the ICU.
Small Rain takes place over the course of those amorphous days as he attempts to survive, and understand, the mysterious condition that wrenched him from his life. Plunged into the tightly regulated and often dysfunctional American health-care system, he grows increasingly estranged from everything known. The award-winning author Garth Greenwell's new novel tells the story of one man confronting mortality-and the forces of art, beauty, and love that keep him alive. 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.
A writer has made a life for himself in Iowa. He teaches, writes when he can, and shares a home with his partner of many years. One day, a sudden and wrenching pain turns him inside out. He tries to ignore it, but it refuses to be ignored-and so he seeks medical care, eventually arriving at the ICU.
Small Rain takes place over the course of those amorphous days as he attempts to survive, and understand, the mysterious condition that wrenched him from his life. Plunged into the tightly regulated and often dysfunctional American health-care system, he grows increasingly estranged from everything known. The award-winning author Garth Greenwell's new novel tells the story of one man confronting mortality-and the forces of art, beauty, and love that keep him alive. 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.