{"product_id":"9781509874699","title":"Small Rain","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Greenwell, Garth \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 19\/09\/2024,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 320 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781509874699,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA New Statesman Book of the Year'My book of the year . . . Rarely has illness made for such a compelling read' – John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas'Marvelous: exceptionally vivid, real, and true' – Colm Tóibín, author of Long Island'Fundamentally about the beauty of life' – Alice Winn, author of In Memoriam'Exquisite. Utterly mesmerizing' - Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time'A fierce beautiful novel' - Sarah Moss, author of Summerwater'Beautiful, evocative' – The TimesA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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 a dysfunctional healthcare system, he struggles to understand what is happening to his body, as someone who has lived for many years in his mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A classic, a dawn serenade, a little miracle of exigent joy. I'll be rereading it the rest of my life' - Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54911270879605,"sku":"9781509874699","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781509874699.jpg?v=1736327364","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9781509874699","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}