Sudden Rain
  • Published:
    Jun-2005 (Hardcover)
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    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    434
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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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EDITIONS
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    • Aug-2006
    • Scribner
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0743254856
    • ISBN13: 9780743254854
    • First Edition
    • Jun-2005
    • Simon & Schuster (UK)
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0743248082
    • ISBN13: 9780743248082
    •  
    • Apr-2005
    • Scribner
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0743254821
    • ISBN13: 9780743254823
    •  
    • Jun-2005
    • Simon & Schuster (UK)
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0743248090
    • ISBN13: 9780743248099
    •  
    • May-2010
    • Scribner
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1439125848
    • ISBN13: 9781439125847
    •  
    • Dec-2012
    • Simon & Schuster (UK)
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1471105504
    • ISBN13: 9781471105500
    •  
    • Apr-2005
    • Highbridge Audio
    • Audio Cassette
    • ISBN: 1565119533
    • ISBN13: 9781565119536
    •  
    • Apr-2005
    • Highbridge Audio
    • Audio CD (abridged)
    • ISBN: 1565119541
    • ISBN13: 9781565119543
    •  
    • May-2005
    • HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
    • Audible
    •  
    • Jun-2005
    • Highbridge Audio
    • audible.com (abridged)



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