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Title: History of the Rain
Author: Niall Williams
Narrator: Jennifer McGrath
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-07-14
Publisher: Recorded Books
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 24 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. Thats how it seems to me, being alive for a little while, the teller and the told. So says Ruthie Swain. The bedridden daughter of a dead poet, home from college after a collapse (Something Amiss, the doctors say), she is trying to find her father through stories - and through generations of family history in County Clare (the Swains have the written stories, from salmon-fishing journals to poems, and the maternal MacCarrolls have the oral) and through her own writing (with its Superabundance of Style). Ruthie turns also to the books her father left behind, his library transposed to her bedroom and stacked on the floor, which she pledges to work her way through while shes still living. In her attic room, with the rain rushing down the windows, Ruthie writes Ireland, with its weather, its rivers, its lilts, and its lows. The stories she uncovers and recounts bring back to life multiple generations buried in this soil - and they might just bring her back into the world again, too.
Members Reviews:
Ruined by narration
I'm about half way through this beautifully written novel which is superbly crafted, poignant and loaded with vivid characters and memorable imagery. The writing makes the novel's Booker short listing entirely understandable. However it is unlikely I will reach the end of the book. I have persisted with the narration for as long as I think I'm able. Sadly the narrator seems to miss the tone of the writing by a thousand miles; presenting the listener with Jimmy Cricket and the land of the bogs and the little people. Wish I'd spent the money on the paper version though that presents it's own issues whilst driving the hour to work.
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Title: History of the Rain
Author: Niall Williams
Narrator: Jennifer McGrath
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-07-14
Publisher: Recorded Books
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 24 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. Thats how it seems to me, being alive for a little while, the teller and the told. So says Ruthie Swain. The bedridden daughter of a dead poet, home from college after a collapse (Something Amiss, the doctors say), she is trying to find her father through stories - and through generations of family history in County Clare (the Swains have the written stories, from salmon-fishing journals to poems, and the maternal MacCarrolls have the oral) and through her own writing (with its Superabundance of Style). Ruthie turns also to the books her father left behind, his library transposed to her bedroom and stacked on the floor, which she pledges to work her way through while shes still living. In her attic room, with the rain rushing down the windows, Ruthie writes Ireland, with its weather, its rivers, its lilts, and its lows. The stories she uncovers and recounts bring back to life multiple generations buried in this soil - and they might just bring her back into the world again, too.
Members Reviews:
Ruined by narration
I'm about half way through this beautifully written novel which is superbly crafted, poignant and loaded with vivid characters and memorable imagery. The writing makes the novel's Booker short listing entirely understandable. However it is unlikely I will reach the end of the book. I have persisted with the narration for as long as I think I'm able. Sadly the narrator seems to miss the tone of the writing by a thousand miles; presenting the listener with Jimmy Cricket and the land of the bogs and the little people. Wish I'd spent the money on the paper version though that presents it's own issues whilst driving the hour to work.