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The Man Who Rained

The Man Who Rained

by Ali Shaw (Author)

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    Paperback 2013

    $3.44
Synopsis

When Elsa's father is killed in a tornado, all she wants is to escape - from New York, her job, her boyfriend - to somewhere new, anonymous, set apart. For some years she has been haunted by a sight once seen from an aeroplane: a tiny, isolated settlement called Thunderstown. Thunderstown has received many a pilgrim, and young Elsa becomes its latest - drawn to this weather-ravaged backwater, this place rendered otherworldly by the superstitions of its denizens. In Thunderstown, they say, the weather can come to life and when Elsa meets Finn Munro, an outcast living in the mountains above the town, she wonders whether she has witnessed just that. For Finn has an incredible secret: he has a thunderstorm inside of him. Not everyone in town wants happiness for Elsa and Finn. As events turn against them, can they weather the tempest - can they survive at all? The Man Who Rained is a work of lyrical, mercurial magic and imagination, a modern-day fable about the elements of love.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 304
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Atlantic Books
Published: 01 Jan 2013
ISBN 10: 0857890344
ISBN 13: 9780857890344
Book Overview: From the Costa Prize shortlisted-author of The Girl with Glass Feet comes another magical novel of love, discovery and nature.

Media Reviews
The Man Who Rained is delicately crafted... Its story haunting and thoroughly, charmingly different -- Alison Flood * Sunday Times *
The most compelling thing about this book... is not the mere plot but Shaw's striking facility with the language... this is such an imaginative novel, written with such attention to words, and such a sense of wonder, that those who savour such skills will find themselves thoroughly transported. * Observer *
Author Bio
Ali Shaw grew up in Dorset and graduated from Lancaster University with a degree in English Literature. He has since worked as a bookseller and at Oxford's Bodleian Library. His first novel, The Girl with Glass Feet, was a huge commercial and critical success, won the Desmond Elliot Prize and was shortlisted for the Costa First Book Award. He is currently at work on his third novel.