One review on 12 Apr 2015
First Published: 2014
Fiction
History of the Rain
Author: Niall Williams
synopsis extract: Told from point of view of a young woman with a debilitating (?bone marrow/blood) condition story of her parents and grandparents and life in a West Clare village on the banks of the Shannon. ...
Publisher:
Kindle
Date first read:
Sun 12th Apr 2015
Format: Kindle
Catalogued: 22nd Nov 2024
Synopsis
Told from point of view of a young woman with a debilitating (?bone marrow/blood) condition story of her parents and grandparents and life in a West Clare village on the banks of the Shannon. Contemporary setting (2014)
Reviews
Review of "History of the Rain"
by Roger on Sun 12th Apr 2015.
Full of literary quotes and references and slightly self consciously poetic form of writing but none the worse for it. Very much in the style of Irish literary writing which I enjoy. (Booker 2014 longlist)