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Hard Rain Falling

By George Pelecanos , Don Carpenter

Book information

Publisher
New York Review Books
Year
2009
ISBN
1590173244, 9781590173244
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
448 kB (459105 bytes)
Series
New York Review Books classics
Edition
First Printing
Pages
\0
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

Don Carpenter’s Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down for good—a Dostoyevskian tale of crime, punishment, and the pursuit of an ever-elusive redemption. The novel follows the adventures of Jack Levitt, an orphaned teenager living off his wits in the fleabag hotels and seedy pool halls of Portland, Oregon. Jack befriends Billy Lancing, a young black runaway and pool hustler extraordinaire. A heist gone wrong gets Jack sent to reform school, from which he emerges embittered by abuse and solitary con?nement. In the meantime Billy has joined the middle class—married, fathered a son, acquired a business and a mistress. But neither Jack nor Billy can escape their troubled pasts, and they will meet again in San Quentin before their strange double drama comes to a violent and revelatory end.

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