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Michel Faber's short stories are markedly diverse-the voice of each is so distinct that the book reads like an anthology of different writers. But Faber's radically inventive style fastens all fifteen stories into a compelling collection deserving of the high praise it garnered in the United Kingdom. One surreal story, "Fish," projects a futuristic world populated with fish swimming in the air. 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. 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. As Garth Morris wrote in the Mail on Sunday (London), "these are well-crafted pieces of quiet forlorn intensity in a very real world."
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"Young writers are meant to have a strong, individual new voice. Michel Faber doesn't: he has a whole host of them. . . . Some Rain Must Fall has an astonishing variety of themes, characters, and styles."-Duncan McLean
"You don't often see satire stirred with so humane a hand, or tragedy handled with so light a touch."-The Guardian (London)
"His sense of wonder and big-heartedness calls to mind the better stories of Ray Bradbury, and he has a wonderful ability to push a whimsy to its extreme with magical results."-The Independent (London)
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"You don't often see satire stirred with so humane a hand, or tragedy handled with so light a touch."-The Guardian (London)
"His sense of wonder and big-heartedness calls to mind the better stories of Ray Bradbury, and he has a wonderful ability to push a whimsy to its extreme with magical results."-The Independent (London)
The debut collection from the bestselling, critically acclaimed author of Under the Skin, The Crimson Petal and The White and The Book of Strange New Things.
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- PublisherHoughton Mifflin
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0156011484
- ISBN 13 9780156011488
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages276
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