Description

Don Carpenter’s Hard Rain Falling is just a tough-as-nails consideration to be out and down, but never down for good—a Dostoyevskian story of crime, abuse, and the goal of an ever-evasive payoff. The book follows the adventures of Jack Levitt, an orphaned teenager living off his senses in the hotels and seedy pool halls of Portland, Oregon. Port befriends a dark runaway, Billy Lancing and swimming hustler extraordinaire. A heist gone wrong gets Port delivered to reform school, that he exists embittered by misuse and individual confinement.