History of the Rain by Niall Williams, Paperback Pangobooks

The History Of The Rain. Why read History of the Rain? The story is told by nineteen-year-old Ruth Swain, who is bed-bound on account of a life-threatening illness.. It acknowledges that faith itself is a paradox, both impossible and necessary

She spends all her time reading the 3,958 books that once belonged to her late father because, in doing so. It acknowledges that faith itself is a paradox, both impossible and necessary

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History of the Rain has a truly distinctive and original voice in 19-year-old first-person narrator "Plain" Ruth Swain, who is bed-bound in her attic bedroom because of an unexplained illness that has cut short her university career To find him, enfolded in the mystery of ancestors, Ruthie must first trace the jutting jaw lines, narrow faces and gleamy skin of the Swains from the restless Reverend Swain. History of the Rain has a truly distinctive and original voice in 19-year-old first-person narrator "Plain" Ruth Swain, who is bed-bound in her attic bedroom because of an unexplained illness that has cut short her university career

History Of The Rain David Mann Flickr. The story is told by nineteen-year-old Ruth Swain, who is bed-bound on account of a life-threatening illness.. Vedbound in her attic room beneath the falling rain, in the margin between this world and the next, Plain Ruth Swain is in search of her father

The Yerres, Effect of Rain by Caillebotte (Illustration) World History Encyclopedia. History of the Rain is charming, wise and beautiful Ruth Swain, a nineteen-year-old girl, finds herself bedridden in her attic room.