Folio Fiction Discussion Group: Hard Rain Falling
Wed, Jul 12
|Online via Zoom


Time & Location
Jul 12, 2023, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Online via Zoom
About the Event
Folio's Fiction book discussion group features a list of classic fiction, curated and led by Folio Librarian Lillian Dabney.
A hardboiled novel about life in the American underground, from the pool halls of Portland to the cells of San Quentin. Simply one of the finest books ever written about being down on your luck.
Don Carpenter's Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down for good--a Dostoyevskian tale of crime, punishment, and the pursuit of an ever-elusive redemption. The novel follows the adventures of Jack Levitt, an orphaned teenager living off his wits in the fleabag hotels and seedy pool halls of Portland, Oregon.
Jack befriends Billy Lancing, a young black runaway and pool hustler extraordinaire. A heist gone wrong gets Jack sent to reform school, from which he emerges embittered by abuse and solitary confinement. In the meantime Billy has joined the middle…
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