Small Rain

Garth Greenwell

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Picador
03 January 2025

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction: special features

'A marvelous novel: exceptionally vivid, real, and true' - Colm Tóibín

A 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.

A 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.

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. 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 of art and the fragile dream of America. Above all, this is a love story of the most unexpected kind.

By: Garth Greenwell
Imprint: Picador
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 400g
ISBN: 9781509874705
ISBN 10: 1509874704
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 03 January 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Garth Greenwell is the author of Cleanness and What Belongs to You. The recipient of 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.

Reviews for Small Rain

Small Rain is a marvelous novel: exceptionally vivid, real, and true. Garth Greenwell’s sensibility is rich and generous – the narrator's memories are haunting, and his experiences of both illness and love are deeply affecting. You are in the room with him. This is a true achievement, written with engaged humanity and a great command of style. -- Colm Tóibín