Hard rain falling

Description

A prisoner in San Quentin falls in love with his cellmate.

Description

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. Jack befriends Billy Lancing, a young black runaway and pool hustler extraordinaire. A heist gone wrong gets Jack sent to reform school, from which he emerges embittered by abuse and solitary confinement. In the meantime Billy has joined the middle class - married, fathered a son, acquired a business and a mistress. But neither Jack nor Billy can escape their troubled pasts, and they will meet again in San Quentin before their strange double drama comes to a violent and revelatory end.

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Genres

• Fiction

Series Statement

• New York Review Books classics

Other Editions

• Hard rain fallingNew York Review Books2009-01-01
• Hard rain falling.Barker1966-01-01
• Hard rain falling.Harcourt, Brace & World1966-01-01
• Hard Rain FallingMass Market PaperbackBallantine Books1987-03-12
• Hard Rain FallingAudio CDAudible Studios on Brilliance Audio2016-05-03