| Product Summary | | Format: Hardcover | | ISBN: 9780307268037 | | Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group | | Publish Date: 3/11/2008 | | Buy.com Sku: 204875681 | | Item#: R6GW9M | | Dimensions (in Inches) 9.75H x 6L x 1T | | Pages: 256 |
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| | | Following "The Rotters' Club" and "The Closed Circle," Coe now offers his first stand-alone novel in a decade, a story of three generations of women whose destinies reach from the English countryside in World War II to London, Toronto, and France at the turn of the new century.
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Taking a turn both in substance and style from his political satires, Jonathan Coe has written a lean and melancholic novel about loneliness and loss. After her aunt Rosamond commits suicide, Gill discovers that her entire estate has been left to a mysterious blind girl named Imogen. To learn the mysterious and tragic backstory of her aunt's life, Gill begins to listen to the cassette recordings Rosamond left behind, an audio diary telling the sad story of her life up until the day she died.
| Praise| "Jonathan Coe's eighth novel is a subtle meditation on reality and the fragility of happiness....Thoughtful, unshowy, and tender, THE RAIN BEFORE IT FALLS explores the difficulty of love and the search for meaning." - Pamela Norris 09/01/2007 "A brief, sad, often very moving story of mothers and daughters, of pain passed on through generations, and of deep and abiding loneliness." - Patrick Ness 09/08/2007 |
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