Some Rain Must Fall : And Other Stories

by Faber, Michel

• ISBN13: 9780156011488
• ISBN10: 0156011484
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Summary

Michel Faber's short stories are markedly diverse-the voice of each is so distinct that the book reads like an anthology of different writers. But Faber's radically inventive style fastens all fifteen stories into a compelling collection deserving of the high praise it garnered in the United Kingdom. One surreal story, "Fish," projects a futuristic world populated with fish swimming in the air. As sharks hover in abandoned corners and human zealots of the Church of the Armageddon loose their fanaticism on the innocent, it's a mother's full-time job to protect her young daughter. The title story, "Some Rain Must Fall," tells of a substitute schoolteacher called on in a crisis, and as she encourages her pupils to express their feelings, we learn the source of the class's trouble: a devastating act that resonates with contemporary America. As Garth Morris wrote in the Mail on Sunday (London), "these are well-crafted pieces of quiet forlorn intensity in a very real world."

Author Biography

Born in the Netherlands in 1960, Michel Faber emigrated to Australia at the age of seven, and moved to Ross-Shire, Scotland, eight years ago. A graduate of Melbourne University, he has worked as a nurse, a pickle-packer, a cleaner, and a guinea pig for medical researc

Table of Contents

Some Rain Must Fall	p. 1
Fish	p. 21
In Case of Vertigo	p. 31
Toy Story	p. 37
Miss Fatt and Miss Thinne	p. 47
Half a Million Pounds and a Miracle	p. 71
The Red Cement Truck	p. 83
Somewhere Warm and Comfortable	p. 91
Nina's Hand	p. 101
The Crust of Hell	p. 115
The Gossip Cell	p. 147
Accountability	p. 161
Pidgin American	p. 175
The Tunnel of Love	p. 201
Sheep	p. 235
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