Hard Rain Falling (Paperback)

from larryerick

The author is a skilled writer and this book deserved to be revived from the 1960s. I was particularly impressed by how timely the story was despite all that has changed in the last several decades. Quite unlike other books I have read, my biggest complaint about this book is that the main charac...

from nngrey

Guy literature. A coming of age story. The style reminds me of Hemingway. Drinking, chasing girls, breaking the law. I enjoyed the first two thirds better than the last third, which was more meditative. I found the protagonist's intellectual development a bit stretched. The book addressed a numbe...

from LiteraryFeline

Hard Rain Falling reminds me of American Rust by Philipp Meyer in some ways. The overall mood of the book is dark and, well, sad. Too, there is that immoral ambiguity which runs through it. There is a hopelessness there but also a sense of hope. The characters always seemed to be seeking redempti...

from richardderus

Wanting is not the same as having; having is not the same as making. You can love and love, never saying the word, never getting eye-to-eye with the core of your need and gift, and be no closer to the beloved than bodies can get. Only children can be utterly consuming love objects, though far too...

from mrgan

A "big" book, covering several lives, inside and out. Yet all the perspective shifts and plot jumps make the overall structure a bit frustratingly haphazard, like trying to make sense of a family by picking through a random shoebox of keepsakes.