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History of the Rain

Niall Williams

Narrator Jennifer McGrath

Publisher: W. F. Howes Ltd

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Summary

We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. In Faha, County Clare, everyone is a long story... Bedbound in her attic room beneath the falling rain, Plain Ruth Swain is in search of her father. To find him Ruthie must first trace the jutting jaw lines, narrow faces and gleamy skin of the Swains from the restless Reverend Swain, her great-grandfather, to her father, Virgil - via pole-vaulting, leaping salmon, poetry and the three thousand, nine hundred and fifty eight books piled high beneath the two skylights in her room.
Duration: about 11 hours (11:22:39)
Publishing date: 2014-09-04; Unabridged; Copyright Year: 2014. Copyright Statment: —