Don Carpenter's Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down for good-a Dostoyevskian tale of crime, punishment, and the pursuit of an ever-elusive redemption. The novel follows the adventures of Jack Levitt, an orphaned teenager living off his wits in the fleabag hotels and seedy pool halls of Portland, Oregon/5. Verified Purchase. "Hard Rain Falling" is a dark, tough novel about the underside of American Society, set in American Western States. It is the debut novel of Don Carpenter. It was published in the s and spans a time from the s to the s/5(). · Don Carpenter was an American writer, best known as the author of Hard Rain Falling. He wrote numerous novels, novellas, short stories and screenplays over the course of a year career that took him from a childhood in Berkeley and the Pacific Northwest to the corridors of power and ego in Hollywood. A close observer of human frailty, his writing depicted marginal characters like pool /5.
― Don Carpenter, quote from Hard Rain Falling "Remove,' I said to myself, `the impetus to private ownership, and you have made the first giant step toward removing the causes of injustice in the world. There would be no greed if there were no possessions, no jealousy, no envy, perhaps even no hatred.". A couple of years ago the memoirist and fiction writer Chris Offutt urged me to read Don Carpenter's Hard Rain Falling, first published in As promised, it was the kind of infrequent reading experience that can only be described as a revelation. Don Carpenter's Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down for good—a Dostoyevskian tale of crime, punishment, and the pursuit of an ever-elusive redemption. The novel follows the adventures of Jack Levitt, an orphaned teenager living off his wits in the fleabag hotels and seedy pool halls of.
A hardboiled novel about life in the American underground, from the pool halls of Portland to the cells of San Quentin. Simply one of the finest books ever written about being down on your luck. Don Carpenter’s Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down for good—a Dostoyevskian tale of crime, punishment, and the pursuit of an ever-elusive redemption. "Hard Rain Falling" is a dark, tough novel about the underside of American Society, set in American Western States. It is the debut novel of Don Carpenter. It was published in the s and spans a time from the s to the s. It has a raw aspect to it and corresponding "street level" crude language and nomenclature. Hard Rain Falling. Hard Rain Falling is a crime novel written by Don Carpenter. The novel was Carpenter's first published book, and follows the adventures of Jack Levitt, an orphaned teenager living off his wits in the fleabag hotels and seedy pool halls of Portland, Oregon. Upon its release the book was heralded as a readable, grim, and.
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