Hard Rain Falling
$21.75
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
6 January 2026
Summary
A cult crime classic about pool-playing, hard drinking and a search for a meaningful life
Jack Levitt - teenaged orphan and small-time criminal - lives off his wits, dividing his time between the pool halls, bars and brothels of Portland, Oregon. Billy Lancing is a young black runaway and pool hustler who falls into Jack’s orbit. After a messed-up heist lands Jack at reform school, he re-enters a world where Billy has struggled to find peace in a new middle-class life with marriage, f…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241766934 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241766931 |
| Author: | Don Carpenter |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 6 January 2026 |
| Weight: | 282g |
| Dimensions: | 21mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Don Carpenter
Don Carpenter (1931-1995) was an American writer, best known as the author of Hard Rain Falling. He wrote numerous novels, novellas, short stories and screenplays over the course of a 22-year career. Facing a mounting series of debilitating illnesses, Carpenter committed suicide in 1995.
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