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Some Rain Must Fall: My Struggle Book 5
Karl Ove Knausgaard
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Description for Some Rain Must Fall: My Struggle Book 5
Paperback. As the youngest student to be admitted to Bergen's prestigious Writing Academy, Karl Ove arrives full of excitement and writerly aspirations. Soon though, he is stripped of his youthful illusions. His writing is revealed to be puerile and cliched, and his social efforts are a dismal failure. He drowns his shame in drink and rock music. Translator(s): Bartlett, Don. Series: Knausgaard. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 36. Weight in Grams: 492.
An exhilarating story of ambition, joy and failure in early manhood from the international phenomenon, Karl Ove Knausgaard As the youngest student to be admitted to Bergen's prestigious Writing Academy, Karl Ove arrives full of excitement and writerly aspirations. Soon though, he is stripped of his youthful illusions. His writing is revealed to be puerile and cliched, and his social efforts are a dismal failure. He drowns his shame in drink and rock music. Then, little by little, things begin to change. He falls in love, gives up writing and the beginnings of an adult life take shape. That is, until his self-destructive binges and the irresistible lure of the writer's struggle pull him back. `Breathtaking... Knausgaard has a rare talent for making everyday life seem fascinating' The Times
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Knausgaard
Condition
New
Number of Pages
672
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099590187
SKU
V9780099590187
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-6
About Karl Ove Knausgaard
Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle cycle has been heralded as a masterpiece all over the world. From A Death in the Family to The End, the novels move through childhood into adulthood and, together, form an enthralling portrait of human life. Knausgaard has been awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature, the Brage Prize and the Jerusalem Prize. His work, which also includes Out of the World, A Time for Everything and the Seasons Quartet, is published in thirty-five languages.
Reviews for Some Rain Must Fall: My Struggle Book 5
Bracing, maddening and utterly compelling
Robert Collins
The Sunday Times
Tremendous, maddening, addictive, gripping
Observer
It is a pen-and-paper virtual reality; after reading it you feel that another past has been downloaded into your mind
Laurence Scott
Financial Times
Breathtaking... Knausgaard has a rare talent for making everyday life seem fascinating
The Times
For Knausgaard's obsessive fans, this cycle is the most exciting literary project of our times... Knausgaard is the most humane writer in the world... He writes beautifully... It is precisely in the commonness of the lovingly recorded details that these books spin their magic
Daniel Swift
Spectator
Raw, fast, improvisatory, unfettered. It's addictive high-wire writing in which he unflinchingly reveals everything about himself
Shortlist
[Some Rain Must Fall] is Knausgaard at his best... It's a rare novelist who writes about student bars and the Happy Mondays at the same time as yearning for spiritual salvation
Max Liu
Independent
Part of Knausgaard's appeal is believability: his books may be called novels but we read them as memoirs. The meticulous detail seems to guarantee their authenticity... Childhood, sex, love, art, work and death are there too, writ small from his own perspective, but compellingly observed
Blake Morrison
Guardian
Reverberates with life's core questions... In its depiction of the torment of writer's block and a young adult's struggle to construct a sense of self, both on and off the page, it is brilliant
Anita Sethi
Mail on Sunday
Robert Collins
The Sunday Times
Tremendous, maddening, addictive, gripping
Observer
It is a pen-and-paper virtual reality; after reading it you feel that another past has been downloaded into your mind
Laurence Scott
Financial Times
Breathtaking... Knausgaard has a rare talent for making everyday life seem fascinating
The Times
For Knausgaard's obsessive fans, this cycle is the most exciting literary project of our times... Knausgaard is the most humane writer in the world... He writes beautifully... It is precisely in the commonness of the lovingly recorded details that these books spin their magic
Daniel Swift
Spectator
Raw, fast, improvisatory, unfettered. It's addictive high-wire writing in which he unflinchingly reveals everything about himself
Shortlist
[Some Rain Must Fall] is Knausgaard at his best... It's a rare novelist who writes about student bars and the Happy Mondays at the same time as yearning for spiritual salvation
Max Liu
Independent
Part of Knausgaard's appeal is believability: his books may be called novels but we read them as memoirs. The meticulous detail seems to guarantee their authenticity... Childhood, sex, love, art, work and death are there too, writ small from his own perspective, but compellingly observed
Blake Morrison
Guardian
Reverberates with life's core questions... In its depiction of the torment of writer's block and a young adult's struggle to construct a sense of self, both on and off the page, it is brilliant
Anita Sethi
Mail on Sunday