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History of the Rain
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014
by Niall Williams, 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
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014
by Niall Williams
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 ..."






Four Letters of Love
A Novel
by Niall Williams, Christine Breen
Hardcover, 257 Pages, Published 1997 by Farrar Straus & Giroux
ISBN-13: 978-0-374-15817-0, ISBN: 0-374-15817-7

"An Irish author presents an evocative debut novel about a man who leaves his family to paint pictures at God's command, disappearing into west Ireland, where he meets a young woman grieving over her afflicted brother. A first novel.""






John(1st Edition)
by Niall Williams, John Williams
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2009 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN-13: 978-0-7475-9678-3, ISBN: 0-7475-9678-6

"What invisible drama plays, what passes to and fro in the columns of air above them, none knows, but the disciples think: perhaps the time is arrived at last. Aged, blind and perilously frail, John the Apostle has walked ten thousand miles to tell of love. In a hundred years he has lived to witness sights and scenes that now cloud his mind. Of his followers, there are few remaining, banished with him to an island where they wait as stor ..."






When Summer's in the Meadow(1st Edition)
by Niall Williams, Christine Breen
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2003 by Soho Press
Bargain Price
ISBN-13: 978-0-939149-37-7, ISBN: 0-939149-37-0

"This story takes up where O Come Ye Back to Ireland left off. After learning they can't have children, Niall and Christine adopt their only child, Diedre, and continue their story in the pastoral farming community in the wild and beautiful Irish countryside."






As It Is In Heaven(Updated)
by Niall Williams
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2000 by Pan Books Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-0-330-37531-3, ISBN: 0-330-37531-8

"It seems right that the lovers in Niall Williams's As It Is in Heaven hail from Italy and Ireland, those sentimental favorites among nations. Williams won kudos and laurels, fans and fame for his first novel, Four Letters of Love, and his second finds him once again illuminating a simple love affair with his own special brand of fine and even brave mawkishness. Dubliner Stephen Griffin, though possessed of a "thin and long" body, is st ..."






This Is Happiness
(Paperback)
by Niall Williams
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 Niall Williams
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 Niall Williams
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 ..."






History of the Rain(1st Edition)
A Novel
by Niall Williams
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 ..."






Four Letters of Love
by Niall Williams
Paperback, Published 1998 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux
ISBN-13: 978-0-9652395-5-4, ISBN: 0-9652395-5-1






Only Say the Word
by Niall Williams
Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2004 by Picador
ISBN-13: 978-0-330-43395-2, ISBN: 0-330-43395-4

"Jim Foley loves his parents, his brother, his sister, Dickens and God; later, he loves Kate -- enough to make her his wife and to shape his life around her -- and later still, he loves his children, Jack and Hannah. This is Jim's story, from his early days in County Clare to early adulthood in America, and then back to Clare again. From happy-ever-after to death-do-us-part; from beginnings to endings to fresh starts; from child, to husb ..."






The Fall of Light(Reprint)
by Niall Williams
Paperback, 350 Pages, Published 2002 by Picador
ISBN-13: 978-0-330-48700-9, ISBN: 0-330-48700-0

"Francis Foley is a proud, stubborn man, and cannot stand to be beholden to anyone. Quick to anger and slow to forgiveness, it is his temper that, one day, costs his sons their home - and their mother. This will not be the last of their losses however: as the four boys and their father embark on an odyssey to find untenanted land they can call their own, their already diminished family is divided still further. But if a combination of ch ..."






This Is Happiness
by Niall Williams
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 ..."






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 ..."






History of the Rain
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014
by Niall Williams
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 ..."






John
A Novel
by Niall Williams
Paperback, Published 2008 by Bloomsbury
ISBN-13: 978-0-7475-9581-6, ISBN: 0-7475-9581-X






Only Say the Word A Format Ome
by Niall Williams
Paperback, 263 Pages, Published 2006 by Picador
ISBN-13: 978-0-330-43849-0, ISBN: 0-330-43849-2






Four Letters of Love(Updated)
(Spanish Edition)
by Niall Williams
Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2006 by Pan Books Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-0-330-35269-7, ISBN: 0-330-35269-5

"'When I was twelve years old God spoke to my father for the first time. God didn't say much. He told my father to be a painter and left it at that ...' So begins Niall Williams' magical tale about love and destiny. Nicholas Coughlan and Isabel Gore were made for each other - but fate doesn't always take the easiest or the most obvious route to true love. For a start, Nicholas and Isabel have never met and nor are they likely to, without ..."






Only Say the Word
by Niall Williams
Paperback, 263 Pages, Published 2005 by Picador
ISBN-13: 978-0-330-43458-4, ISBN: 0-330-43458-6



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