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Don Carpenter. Don Carpenter (March 16, 1931 – July 27, 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 that took him from a childhood in Berkeley, California and the Pacific Northwest to the corridors of power and ego in Hollywood.
Jul 28, 1995 · Don Carpenter 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 that took him from a childhood in Berkeley and the Pacific Northwest to the corridors of power and ego in Hollywood.
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336. 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. Upon its release the book was heralded as a readable, grim, and masterful debut ...
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Oct 21, 2009 · Don Carpenter was a realist novelist who wrote about small-timers, last-chancers and no-hopers in California and Hollywood. His novels are unpredictable, empathetic and unclassifiable, mixing social commentary, crime, comedy and tragedy.
A classic crime novel about two friends, Jack and Billy, who drift apart and reunite in prison. Read reviews, ratings, and more about this book by the American writer Don Carpenter.
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Jul 3, 2014 · FRIDAYS AT ENRICO’S. By Don Carpenter. Finished by Jonathan Lethem. 325 pp. Counterpoint. $25. Douglas Brinkley, a professor of history at Rice University and a historian for CBS News, is the ...
Jul 23, 2015 · Don Carpenter was a novelist who wrote about a Portland of the 1940s and '50s, a city of pool hustlers, street kids and racial and sexual tensions. He died in 1995, but his books are coming back into print and being praised by writers and readers.
