The Coming of Rain

by Richard Marius

Book Overview

This murder mystery set in Bourbonville, Tennessee, in the aftermath of the Civil War won the Friends of American Writers prize for best first novel when it was first published in 1969. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558531424
• ISBN13: 9781558531420
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Rutledge Hill Press
• Length: 437 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Of Human Bondage

One strange legacy of the 20th Century is the realization of the humanity of parents, particularly mothers. Angelic, long suffering mothers of 19th Century literature were unveiled so often by so many writers as to always be tripwire for suspicion by readers. The more angelic a woman is portrayed, the more devious and profound the flaws before the final chapter. So it is with Coming of Rain.A young man, dominated by a strong mother wielding the romantic Old South and a barely remembered Confederate father, discovers the past as it really was. He also discovers himself as he must be in the future. The Coming of Rain is a flood of story beginning in drought, of a prediction by a madman about to be hanged, of many kinds of slavery of the mind long after the ownership of other humans was abolished.This book isn't heavy reading, but it's enjoyable for those who like historical fiction.