{"product_id":"9781922182029","title":"Coming Rain","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Moving and brilliant.\"— \u003ci\u003eAustralian Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Daisley's prose possesses a shimmering, allusive beauty reminiscent of John McGahern.\"— \u003ci\u003eWeekend Australian\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\" \u003ci\u003eComing Rain \u003c\/i\u003e shimmers with dusty red heat. . . . Tune in to the distinctive rhythm of the prose and you'll enjoy the rich, subtle rewards of a really good book.\"— \u003ci\u003eListener\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWestern Australia, the wheatbelt. Lew McLeod has been travelling and working with Painter Hayes since he was a boy. Shearing, charcoal burning—whatever comes. Painter made him his first pair of shoes. It's a hard and uncertain life, but it's the only one he knows.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Lew's a grown man now. And with this latest job, shearing for John Drysdale and his daughter Clara, everything will change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStephen Daisley writes in lucid, rippling prose of how things work, and why; of the profound satisfaction in hard work done with care, of love and friendship and the damage that both contain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth brutal and poignant, this is an unforgettable novel for fans of Cormac McCarthy, Richard Ford, and Kent Haruf.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eStephen Daisley \u003c\/b\u003e has worked on sheep and cattle stations, on oil and gas rigs, and driving trucks. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eTraitor\u003c\/i\u003e , won the 2011 Prime Minister's Literary Award.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Text Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47062796959984,"sku":"9781922182029","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781922182029_p0.jpg?v=1763633507","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781922182029","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}