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History of the Rain: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014 (Record no. 6420)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781408852057
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 823.92
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Williams, Niall
9 (RLIN) 378730
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title History of the Rain: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. United Kingdom;
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Bloomsbury Publishing PLC;
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2015
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 368 Pages;
Other physical details Paperback
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. In Faha, County Clare, everyone is a long story...Bedbound in her attic room beneath the falling rain, in the margin between this world and the next, Plain Ruth Swain is in search of her father. To find him, enfolded in the mystery of ancestors, Ruthie must first trace the jutting jaw lines, narrow faces and gleamy skin of the Swains from the restless Reverend Swain, her great-grandfather, to grandfather Abraham, to her father, Virgil - via pole-vaulting, leaping salmon, poetry and the three thousand, nine hundred and fifty eight books piled high beneath the two skylights in her room, beneath the rain. The stories - of her golden twin brother Aeney, their closeness even as he slips away; of their dogged pursuit of the Swains' Impossible Standard and forever falling just short; of the wild, rain-sodden history of fourteen acres of the worst farming land in Ireland - pour forth in Ruthie's still, small, strong, hopeful voice. A celebration of books, love and the healing power of the imagination, this is an exquisite, funny, moving novel in which every sentence sings.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
9 (RLIN) 378731
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Karachi Karachi Adult Fiction 13/07/2016   823.92 PKLC010019 20/09/2016 13/07/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17
    Dewey Decimal Classification     Lahore Lahore Adult Fiction 10/05/2016   823.92 PKLC013235 10/05/2016 10/05/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17