Come Rain or Come Shine
Faber Stories
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Publisher Description
Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.
When Ray turns up to visit his old university friends Charlie and Emily, he's given a special task: to be so much his useless self that he makes Charlie look good by comparison.
But Ray has his own buried feelings to contend with. Decades earlier, he and Emily would listen to jazz when they were alone, and now, as Sarah Vaughan sings through the speakers, he struggles to control everything the sound brings with it.
In Kazuo Ishiguro's hands, a snapshot of domestic realism becomes a miniature masterpiece of memory and forgetting.
Customer Reviews
The art of simplicity
There are only few authors who are able to turn the small details and perils of life into addictive stories. Mixing the contemporary and long standing values , this short story will surprise any reader for the density of particulars, flaws and peculiarities and for the skill to transport the reader from a topic to a different situation, from a location to an interior place and from a moving moment to a laugh.