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Book Club: Small Rain by Garth Greenwell

Category : Other
Next date : 22/05/2025
Place : Full Circle
Chaussée de Vleurgat, 89
1050 Ixelles

“Greenwell―such a finely tuned, generous writer―transforms a savage illness into a meditation on a vital life.” ―Kirkus Reviews A poet's life is turned inside out by a sudden, wrenching pain. The pain brings him to his knees, and eventually to the ICU. Confined to bed, plunged into the dysfunctional American healthcare system, he struggles to understand what is happening to his body, as someone who has lived for many years in his mind. This is a searching, sweeping novel set at the furthest edges of human experience, where the forces that give life value―art, memory, poetry, music, care―are thrown into sharp relief. Time expands and contracts. Sudden intimacies bloom. Small Rain surges beyond the hospital to encompass a radiant vision of human life: our shared vulnerability, the limits and possibilities of sympathy, the ideal of art and the fragile dream of America. Above all, this is a love story of the most unexpected kind.

Date Thursday 22 May 2025 from 19:00 till 20:30
Place Full Circle
Chaussée de Vleurgat, 89
1050 Ixelles http://www.fullcirclespaces.com
Information and Reservations https://fullcircle.eu/whatson
Phone : +32 2 644 37 77
Prices 0 € - VIP
15 € - Normal
Languages
en
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Full Circle