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
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 ..."
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
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 ..."
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 ..."
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 ..."
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 ..."
"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 ..."
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 ..."