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History of the Rain

Author : Niall Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781620406489

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Longlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. That's how it seems to me, being alive for a little while, the teller and the told. So says Ruthie Swain. The bedridden daughter of a dead poet, home from college after a collapse (Something Amiss, the doctors say), she is trying to find her father through stories--and through generations of family history in County Clare (the Swains have the written stories, from salmon-fishing journals to poems, and the maternal MacCarrolls have the oral) and through her own writing (with its Superabundance of Style). Ruthie turns also to the books her father left behind, his library transposed to her bedroom and stacked on the floor, which she pledges to work her way through while she's still living. In her attic room, with the rain rushing down the windows, Ruthie writes Ireland, with its weather, its rivers, its lilts, and its lows. The stories she uncovers and recounts bring back to life multiple generations buried in this soil--and they might just bring her back into the world again, too.

Rain: A Natural and Cultural History

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1680659227

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A History of the Theories of Rain

Author : Stephen Collis
Publisher : Talonbooks
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1772012882

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A History of the Theories of Rain by Stephen Collis Pdf

Explores the strange effect our current sense of impending doom has on our relation to time, and asks what resistance to the tenor of these out-of-joint times might look like.

The History of Rain

Author : Stephens Gerard Malone
Publisher : Nimbus Publishing Limited
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1771089792

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The History of Rain by Stephens Gerard Malone Pdf

Literary historical fiction set in a war-torn Europe and glamourous Old Hollywood, following a lonely landscape gardener, from author of Big Town and I Still Have a Suitacase in Berlin

Rain

Author : Cynthia Barnett
Publisher : Crown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780804137119

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Rain by Cynthia Barnett Pdf

Rain is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive. It is the subject of countless poems and paintings; the top of the weather report; the source of the world's water. Yet this is the first book to tell the story of rain. Cynthia Barnett's Rain begins four billion years ago with the torrents that filled the oceans, and builds to the storms of climate change. It weaves together science—the true shape of a raindrop, the mysteries of frog and fish rains—with the human story of our ambition to control rain, from ancient rain dances to the 2,203 miles of levees that attempt to straitjacket the Mississippi River. It offers a glimpse of our "founding forecaster," Thomas Jefferson, who measured every drizzle long before modern meteorology. Two centuries later, rainy skies would help inspire Morrissey’s mopes and Kurt Cobain’s grunge. Rain is also a travelogue, taking readers to Scotland to tell the surprising story of the mackintosh raincoat, and to India, where villagers extract the scent of rain from the monsoon-drenched earth and turn it into perfume. Now, after thousands of years spent praying for rain or worshiping it; burning witches at the stake to stop rain or sacrificing small children to bring it; mocking rain with irrigated agriculture and cities built in floodplains; even trying to blast rain out of the sky with mortars meant for war, humanity has finally managed to change the rain. Only not in ways we intended. As climate change upends rainfall patterns and unleashes increasingly severe storms and drought, Barnett shows rain to be a unifying force in a fractured world. Too much and not nearly enough, rain is a conversation we share, and this is a book for everyone who has ever experienced it.

The History of Rain

Author : Conor O'Callaghan
Publisher : Gallery Books
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015032434816

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This first collection is united by an awareness of elemental forces, of how those forces can influence experience, and by the poet's constant need to arrest moments when history and the individual glance against each other.

The Abridged History of Rainfall

Author : Jay Hopler
Publisher : McSweeney's
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781944211363

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The Abridged History of Rainfall by Jay Hopler Pdf

Jay Hopler's second collection, a mourning song for his father, is an elegy of uproar, a careening hymn to disaster and its aftermath. In lyric poems by turns droll and desolate, Hopler documents the struggle to live in the face of great loss, a task that sends him ranging through Florida's torrid subtropics, the mountains of the American West, the streets of Rome, and the Umbrian countryside. Vivid, dynamic, unrestrained: The Abridged History of Rainfall is a festival of glowing saints and fighting cocks, of firebombs and birdsong.

History of the Rain

Author : Niall Williams
Publisher : Clipper Audio
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-12
Category : Clare (Ireland)
ISBN : 1471275957

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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.

The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 994 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Northwest, Old
ISBN : CHI:22195199

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The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa by Anonim Pdf

The History of Nacogdoches County, Texas

Author : R. W. Haltom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Nacogdoches County (Tex.)
ISBN : WISC:89065966772

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A Practical Essay on the History and Treatment of Beriberi

Author : J. G. Malcolmson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781108068932

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A Practical Essay on the History and Treatment of Beriberi by J. G. Malcolmson Pdf

A one-volume reissue of two 1835 medical works discussing the symptoms, diagnosis and treatments of thiamine deficiency and rheumatism.

Blame It On The Rain

Author : Laura Lee
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006-08-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1417760540

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Provides a close-up look at the social, cultural, and historical impact of the weather on human life, furnishing a host of trivia and lore and answering questions that range from the truth behind the biblical story of Noah's Ark to what would happen to th

The Pacific Northwest. Facts Relating to the History, Topography, Climate, Soil, and Agriculture, Forests, Fisheries, Mineral Resources, Commerce, Industry, Lands, Means of Communication, etc.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385404298

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The Pacific Northwest. Facts Relating to the History, Topography, Climate, Soil, and Agriculture, Forests, Fisheries, Mineral Resources, Commerce, Industry, Lands, Means of Communication, etc. by Anonymous Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.