Hard Rain Falling
Hard Rain Falling is a 1966 crime novel written by Don Carpenter. The novel was Carpenter's first published book, and follows the adventures of Jack Levitt, an orphaned teenager living off his wits in the fleabag hotels and seedy pool halls of Portland, Oregon. Thirty-three years after its publication, it was re-published by the New York Review Book classics.[1] Fourteen years after the suicide of Don Carpenter in 1995, the novel received a wave of renewed national and international interest, including an acclaimed review by the Washington Post in 2009.[2] The novel also received posthumous international recognition for Carpenter, including a 2009 reviewed by the UK Independent.[3]