| | Powell's Books - Some Rain Must Fall (Harvest Original) by Michel Faber (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | As sharks hover in abandoned corners and human zealots of the Church of the Armageddon loose their fanaticism on the innocent, it's a mother's full-time job to protect her young daughter. |
 | | As Garth Morris wrote in The Mail on Sunday (London), "These are well-crafted pieces of quiet forlorn intensity in a very real world." Surreal and provocative, here's more from this exciting new talent. |
 | | The title story, "Some Rain Must Fall" tells of a substitute schoolteacher called on in a crisis, and as she encourages her pupils to express their feelings, we learn the source of the class's trouble: a devastating act that resonates with contemporary America. |
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