Book #110164

Small Rain - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Nicholas Delbanco

Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Publisher: New York: Morrow, 1975.

Price: $40.00

A Near Fine first printing of the first edition in alike dust-jacket.

In this beautifully written and powerful book, Nicholas Delbanco tells the story of his great-grandfather, an American farmer in the early twentieth century. Rainie Ellis, the farmer's wife, is a central figure in the story, as she is the one who connects the farmer to the land and to the cycles of life and death that are central to farming. The Ellis family belongs to a vanishing way of life, one that is slowly disappearing as the world around them changes. As the farmer's children come of age and leave the farm, they each struggle to find their place in a world that has already moved on. Small Rain is a beautifully written and poignant story of family, love, and loss.; 8vo; $6.00.