Garth Greenwell Small Rain Hardcover Book

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction&#39My book of the year . . . Rarely has illness made for such a compelling read&#39 &ndash John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas&#39Marvelous exceptionally vivid, real, and true&#39 &ndash Colm T&oacuteib&iacuten, author of Long Island&#39Fundamentally about the beauty of life&#39 &ndash Alice Winn, author of In Memoriam&#39Exquisite. Utterly mesmerizing&#39 Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the NightTime&#39A fierce, beautiful novel&#39 Sarah Moss, author of Summerwater&#39Beautiful, evocative&#39 &ndash The TimesA medical crisis brings one man close to death &ndash and to love, art, and beauty &ndash in a profound and luminous novel by awardwinning author Garth Greenwell. A poet&rsquos 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. This is a searching, sweeping novel set at the furthest edges of human experience, where the forces that give life value &ndash art, memory, poetry, music, care &ndash are thrown into sharp relief. Time expands and contracts. Sudden intimacies bloom. Small Rain surges beyond the hospital to encompass a radiant vision of human life our shared vulnerability, the limits and possibilities of sympathy, the ideal... | Garth Greenwell Small Rain Hardcover Book