{"product_id":"coming-rain","title":"Coming Rain","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Moving and brilliant.\"—Australian Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Daisley's prose possesses a shimmering, allusive beauty reminiscent of John McGahern.\"—Weekend Australian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Coming Rain 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.\"—Listener\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\u003eStephen Daisley has worked on sheep and cattle stations, on oil and gas rigs, and driving trucks. His first novel, Traitor, won the 2011 Prime Minister's Literary Award.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Club","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51342244905277,"sku":"9781922182029","price":12.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/3135\/9805\/files\/9781922182029.jpg?v=1769821692","url":"https:\/\/bookclub.org.nz\/products\/coming-rain","provider":"Book Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}