Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter - ISBN: 9780241766934
Paperback
Pool, crime, and redemption: searching for meaning in a hard world.

Hard Rain Falling

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  • Paperback

    368 pages

  • Release Date

    6 January 2026

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Summary

A cult crime classic about pool-playing, hard drinking and a search for a meaningful life

Jack Levitt - teenaged orphan and small-time criminal - lives off his wits, dividing his time between the pool halls, bars and brothels of Portland, Oregon. Billy Lancing is a young black runaway and pool hustler who falls into Jack’s orbit. After a messed-up heist lands Jack at reform school, he re-enters a world where Billy has struggled to find peace in a new middle-class life with marriage, f…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241766934
ISBN-10:0241766931
Author:Don Carpenter
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:368
Release Date:6 January 2026
Weight:266g
Dimensions:196mm x 129mm x 22mm
About The Author

Don Carpenter

Don Carpenter (1931-1995) was an American writer, best known as the author of Hard Rain Falling. He wrote numerous novels, novellas, short stories and screenplays over the course of a 22-year career. Facing a mounting series of debilitating illnesses, Carpenter committed suicide in 1995.

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