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    Only the Rain: A Novel
    Only the Rain: A Novel
    Only the Rain: A Novel
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    Only the Rain: A Novel

    Written by Randall Silvis

    Narrated by Eric G. Dove

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    About this audiobook

    When family man and war veteran Russell loses his job as a quarry worker, his life suddenly seems more like a waking nightmare than a chance to finally live the American dream. Facing bills, a new baby, and a bone-dry bank account, he’s got nothing left to lose. Russell comes to the rescue of a naked stranger dancing in the rain, and what was supposed to be a straightforward good deed turns into a spiral of danger. When Russell finds an enticing stash of money in the woman’s house, he knows the cash could be his only hope. Taking just a handful will save his family’s future.

    His “victimless crime” seems to be anything but risky—until the criminals he robbed come looking for their dirty money. Russell’s ready to surrender it, but then his daughter gets sick…and he must choose between saving her or giving the devils their due. Someone’s going to pay. The question is, how much?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJan 1, 2018
    ISBN9781543618242
    Only the Rain: A Novel
    Author

    Randall Silvis

    Randall Silvis is the internationally acclaimed author of more than a dozen novels, one story collection, and one book of narrative nonfiction. He is also a prize-winning playwright, a produced screenwriter, and a prolific essayist who has been published and produced in virtually every field and genre of creative writing. His numerous essays, articles, poems, and short stories have appeared in the Discovery Channel magazines, the Writer, Prism International, Short Story International, Manoa, and numerous other online and print magazines. His work has been translated into ten languages. Silvis’s many literary awards include two writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts; the prestigious Drue Heinz Literature Prize; a Fulbright Senior Scholar research award; six fellowships for his fiction, drama, and screenwriting from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts; and an honorary Doctor of Letters degree awarded for “distinguished literary achievement.”

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    • 3/5
      Book source ~ Kindle FirstRussell works in a quarry, is a veteran, husband, and father to 2.5 kids. He and his wife are living the American Dream. They’ve got decent jobs, just bought a home, and are waiting for their 3rd child. Then everything goes sideways. One decision, one mistake, one out-of-his-control event, and now everything he’s ever wanted is all in jeopardy.The storytelling in this book is a bit different. Russell is writing to an Army buddy through emails, reflecting on the events that led him to what happened, how he screwed up, and how he managed to make things right again. But are things right? Will things ever be right again? No. They can’t after what’s happened. But hopefully they can move on. I’ll be honest, this isn’t the greatest story out there. But it is compelling enough to keep a person reading, to see how Russell is going to get through this terrible fuck up. I have to admit I didn’t see that ending coming. I envisioned something else, but I’m satisfied with how it played out. My favorite character is Russell’s grandpa, Pops. What a cool guy! All-in-all a decent read.
    • 5/5
      Damn good book. Made me cry though.
    • 4/5
      A kindle first pick for me and one in which I was very pleased. I have read his two DeMarco series books and also enjoyed both. A simple story, simply written as a modern day morality tale. A young man, husband, father of two young daughters, wife expecting another, loses his job. Feeling desperate, and though he is at heart a good man, a loving man, does something he comes to regret. Something with a terrible cost, something he needs to put right.The writing is vivid, flows well as we see all the thought processes of this conflicted man. How can he make this right and keep his family intact? We learn of his past, his closeness to his grandparents who raised him to do right, another thing he has trouble forgiving himself for. I couldn't condone his actions, but understood how he made the decisions he made and why. Found myself rooting for this little family. Loved his remaining grandparent, Pappi, who helps without condemnation. Also, I liked how this author took us back to both these men and their war experiences, advice, action then that they use now. Could it have ended the way it did? I thought so.