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Sudden Rain

Sudden Rain

Wolff, Maritta
Livesey, Margot

Paperback

Mystery & ThrillerClassic FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0743254856
ISBN13: 9780743254854
Publisher: Scribner Books Co
Published: Aug 8 2006
Pages: 448
Weight: 0.81
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.72 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
A vivid, gripping, emotional, and addictive read, Sudden Rain is also a rare and valuable portrait of an era: the long-lost final manuscript of Maritta Wolff--the author who, at the age of twenty-two, published what Sinclair Lewis deemed the most important novel of the year, Whistle Stop (1941).

Hailed by Entertainment Weekly as the Nixon-era precursor to Tom Perrotta's acclaimed novel, Little Children this is a compelling drama that offers great insight into the nature of marriage -- both then and now.

Now that Sudden Rain has come out of its hiding place -- in Wolff's refrigerator, found after her death -- it remains gloriously frozen in time. Set in the fall of 1972, the novel perfectly captures, with expansive emotion and cinematic detail, the domestic trends of three generations of middle-class couples living in suburban Los Angeles. A brilliant portrait of its burgeoning era, Sudden Rain also offers striking cultural commentary on our everyday notions of love and marriage; individuality, equality, and community; and the promise and pursuit of the American Dream.

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