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Four Letters of Love(Reprint)
A Novel
by Niall Williams, 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 ..."

History of the Rain(Reprint)
A Novel
by Niall Williams
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 ..."