This Is Happiness (Paperback) by NiallWilliams Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2020 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United Kingdom, London ISBN-13: 978-1-5266-0935-9, ISBN: 1-5266-0935-5
This Is Happiness by NiallWilliams Hardcover, 400 Pages, Published 2019 by Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-5266-0933-5, ISBN: 1-5266-0933-9
"The most enchanting novel you'll read this year, from the acclaimed author of Man Booker-longlisted History of the RainChange is coming to Faha, a small Irish parish that hasn't changed in a thousand years.For one thing, the rain is stopping. Nobody remembers when it started; rain on the western seaboard is a condition of living. But now - just as Father Coffey proclaims the coming of the electricity - the rain clouds are lifting. Seven ..."
This is Happiness by NiallWilliams Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2019 by Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-63557-421-0, ISBN: 1-63557-421-8
"Although we didn't know it then, that summer, a young man, Ciaran MacMathuna,
would roll down from Dublin to Clare, to call to houses, to step inside back
doorways into flagged kitchens with open hearths and no electricity, and with the
help ..."
This Is Happiness by NiallWilliams Hardcover, 400 Pages, Published 2019 by Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-63557-420-3, ISBN: 1-63557-420-X
"NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST and REAL SIMPLEA profound and enchanting new novel from Booker Prize-longlisted author Niall Williams about the loves of our lives and the joys of reminiscing. You don’t see rain stop, but you sense it. You sense something has changed in the frequency you’ve been living and you hear the quietness you thought was silence get quieter still, and you raise your head so your eyes can make ..."
This Is Happiness by NiallWilliams Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2019 by Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-5266-0936-6, ISBN: 1-5266-0936-3
"The most enchanting novel you'll read this year, from the acclaimed author of Man Booker-longlisted History of the RainChange is coming to Faha, a small Irish parish that hasn't changed in a thousand years.For one thing, the rain is stopping. Nobody remembers when it started; rain on the western seaboard is a condition of living. But now - just as Father Coffey proclaims the coming of the electricity - the rain clouds are lifting. Seven ..."
This Is Happiness by NiallWilliams 400 Pages, Published 2019 by Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-5266-0934-2, ISBN: 1-5266-0934-7
"Shortlisted for Best Novel in the Irish Book Awards Longlisted for the 2020 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction From the acclaimed author of Man Booker-longlisted History of the Rain 'Lyrical, tender and sumptuously perceptive' Sunday ..."
"With an introduction by John HurtA classic love story and a seminal work of Irish literature that is a testament to romance, magic and the power of true love.In love everything changes, and continues changing all the time. There is no stillness, no stopped clock of the heart in which the moment of happiness holds forever, but only the constant whirring forward motion of desire and need. ., .Nicholas Coughlan and Isabel Gore are meant fo ..."
History of the Rain Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014 by NiallWilliams, Brigit Viney Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2015 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc ISBN-13: 978-1-4088-5205-7, ISBN: 1-4088-5205-5
"We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. In Faha, County Clare, everyone is a long story...Bedbound in her attic room beneath the falling rain, in the margin between this world and the next, Plain Ruth Swain is in search of her father. To find him, enfolded in the mystery of ancestors, Ruthie must first trace the jutting jaw lines, narrow faces and gleamy skin of the Swai ..."
History of the Rain(Reprint) A Novel by NiallWilliams Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2015 by Bloomsbury Usa ISBN-13: 978-1-62040-770-7, ISBN: 1-62040-770-1
"Longlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize"We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. That's how it seems to me, being alive for a little while, the teller and the told."""""So says Ruthie Swain. The bedridden daughter of a dead poet, home from college after a collapse (Something Amiss, the doctors say), she is trying to find her father through stories--and through generations of f ..."
John by NiallWilliams Cd, Published 2015 by Bolinda Audio Audiobook, Mp3 Audio, Unabridged ISBN-13: 978-1-4890-8329-6, ISBN: 1-4890-8329-4
"In the years following the death of Jesus Christ, John the Apostle, now a frail, blind old man, lives in forced exile on the desolate island of Patmos with a small group of his disciples. Together, the group has endured their banishment, but after years awaiting Christ's return, fissures form within their faith, and, inevitably, one of John's followers disavows Christ's divinity and breaks away from the community, threatening to change ..."
Four Letters of Love(Reprint) A Novel by NiallWilliams, John Hurt Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2015 by Bloomsbury Usa ISBN-13: 978-1-63286-318-8, ISBN: 1-63286-318-9
"Nicholas Coughlan is twelve years old when his father, an Irish civil servant, announces that God has commanded him to become a painter. He abandons the family and a wife who is driven to despair. Years later, Nicholas's own civil-service career is disrupted by tragic news: his father has burned down the house, with all his paintings and himself in it. Isabel Gore is the daughter of a poet. She's a passionate girl, but her brother is th ..."
Four Letters of Love A Novel by NiallWilliams 368 Pages, Published 2015 by Bloomsbury Publishing Usa ISBN-13: 978-1-63286-319-5, ISBN: 1-63286-319-7
"Margaret Gore was watching for it, and took its brown envelope from the pier like
a bitter medicine she knew was needed. She did not walk home, but carried the
letter unopened around the northern shore, making her way out onto the black
crags of rock that jutted into the softest foam of the blue sea. The spray skirted her
bare legs where she stood and read that Isabel had failed two subjects in her
examinations. She read down throu ..."
History of the Rain A Novel by NiallWilliams 368 Pages, Published 2014 by Bloomsbury Publishing Usa ISBN-13: 978-1-62040-648-9, ISBN: 1-62040-648-9
"A Novel Niall Williams. For my father it was as if the world split open and out
came this parade of The Remarkables. If this was America they'd be Blockbuster
material, there'd be CUCHULAINN VII in 3D by now with Liam Neeson in his long
Star Wars hair, the Gáe Bolga ... It was Far Out before far out was invented in
California, because sitting around in a few centuries of rain breeds these
outlands of imagination. ... Read Gulliver' ..."
History of the Rain Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014 by NiallWilliams Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2014 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc ISBN-13: 978-1-4088-5202-6, ISBN: 1-4088-5202-0
"We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. In Faha, County Clare, everyone is a long story...Bedbound in her attic room beneath the falling rain, in the margin between this world and the next, Plain Ruth Swain is in search of her father. To find him, enfolded in the mystery of ancestors, Ruthie must first trace the jutting jaw lines, narrow faces and gleamy skin of the Swai ..."
History of the Rain Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014 by NiallWilliams 368 Pages, Published 2014 by A&C Black ISBN-13: 978-1-4088-5201-9, ISBN: 1-4088-5201-2
"Remarque (Book 672, Fawcett paperback, New York), in the stern stiff-feeling
pages of The Guns ofAugust (Book 1,023, Barbara Tuchman, ... He's got all that
mind, all that inner country he keeps going around in, mines and craters, caverns
and dead ends. ... What am I supposed to do with this life? is a common
Swainism."
History of the Rain(1st Edition) A Novel by NiallWilliams Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2014 by Bloomsbury Usa ISBN-13: 978-1-62040-647-2, ISBN: 1-62040-647-0
"We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. That's how it seems to me, being alive for a little while, the teller and the told.So says Ruthie Swain. The bedridden daughter of a dead poet, home from college after a collapse (Something Amiss, the doctors say), she is trying to find her father through stories--and through generations of family history in County Clare (the Swains have ..."
History of the Rain Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014 by NiallWilliams Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2014 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc ISBN-13: 978-1-4088-5203-3, ISBN: 1-4088-5203-9
"We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. In Faha, County Clare, everyone is a long story...Bedbound in her attic room beneath the falling rain, in the margin between this world and the next, Plain Ruth Swain is in search of her father. To find him, enfolded in the mystery of ancestors, Ruthie must first trace the jutting jaw lines, narrow faces and gleamy skin of the Swai ..."
Only Say the Word (Paperback) by NiallWilliams, Pan Macmillan Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2013 by Pan Macmillan, United Kingdom ISBN-13: 978-1-4472-4266-6, ISBN: 1-4472-4266-1
"Only Say the Word tells Jim's story, and the story of the people and places in his life, as he moves from childhood to marriage and fatherhood, from early days spent in County Clare to early adulthood in America, and back to Clare once more ..."
Only Say the Word by NiallWilliams 448 Pages, Published 2013 by Pan Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-0-330-47543-3, ISBN: 0-330-47543-6
"Only Say the Word tells Jim's story, and the story of the people and places in his life, as he moves from childhood to marriage and fatherhood, from early days spent in County Clare to early adulthood in America, and back to Clare once more ..."