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Some Rain Must Fall: My Struggle Book 5 (My Struggle, 5)

Some Rain Must Fall: My Struggle Book 5 (My Struggle, 5)

by Don Bartlett (Translator), Karl Ove Knausgaard (Author)

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    Paperback 2016

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Synopsis

As the youngest student to be admitted to Bergen's prestigious Writing Academy, Karl Ove arrives full of excitement and writerly aspirations. Soon though, he is stripped of his youthful illusions. His writing is revealed to be puerile and cliched, and his social efforts are a dismal failure. He drowns his shame in drink and rock music. Then, little by little, things begin to change. He falls in love, gives up writing and the beginnings of an adult life take shape. That is, until his self-destructive binges and the irresistible lure of the writer's struggle pull him back. In this latest instalment of the My Struggle cycle, Knausgaard writes with unflinching honesty to deliver the full drama of everyday life.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 672
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06 Oct 2016
ISBN 10: 0099590182
ISBN 13: 9780099590187
Book Overview: The fifth volume of Knausgaard's internationally bestselling My Struggle series

Media Reviews
Bracing, maddening and utterly compelling. -- Robert Collins The Sunday Times A tremendous, maddening, addictive, gripping Observer The world's most-talked-about memoirist... Utterly compelling... Ultimately it is the detail of Knausgaard's outpouring that makes us realise, paradoxically, how unrecoverable and unknowable our past lives are. -- Andrew Neather Evening Standard It is a pen-and-paper virtual reality; after reading it you feel that another past has been downloaded into your mind. -- Laurence Scott Financial Times Breathtaking... Knausgaard has a rare talent for making everyday life seem fascinating The Times For Knausgaard's obsessive fans, this cycle is the most exciting literary project of our times... Knausgaard is the most humane writer in the world... He writes beautifully... It is precisely in the commonness of the lovingly recorded details that these books spin their magic. -- Daniel Swift Spectator Raw, fast, improvisatory, unfettered. It's addictive high-wire writing in which he unflinchingly reveals everything about himself. Shortlist [Some Rain Must Fall] is Knausgaard at his best... It's a rare novelist who writes about student bars and the Happy Mondays at the same time as yearning for spiritual salvation. -- Max Liu Independent Part of Knausgaard's appeal is believability: his books may be called novels but we read them as memoirs. The meticulous detail seems to guarantee their authenticity... Childhood, sex, love, art, work and death are there too, writ small from his own perspective, but compellingly observed. -- Blake Morrison Guardian As joyful to read as bingeing on a TV box set -- James Kidd Independent
Author Bio
Karl Ove Knausgaard's first novel, Out of the World, was the first ever debut novel to win the Norwegian Critics Prize and his second, A Time for Everything, was widely acclaimed. A Death in the Family, the first of the My Struggle cycle of novels, was awarded the prestigious Brage Prize. The My Struggle cycle has been heralded as a masterpiece all over the world.