Rain (Richard Kasak Books) [Paperback]

Guillermo Bosch (Author)

Book Description

Series: Richard Kasak Books | Publication Date: September 1995

A thrilling erotic, allegorical, political fairytale which tells of one man's attempt to save a world on the eve of destruction. (Sold thousands in first print edition. Now check out this second printing.) What others have said about Bosch's novel, Rain: "Rain definitely pays homage to the European tradition of an erotic literature which stimulates intellectual and moral questioning of social, economic and political institutions. Rain is an important book..." - Robert Sam Anson, Best Intentions "This book will sear the flesh off your fingers..." - Peter Lefcourt, Di and I "The intensely sensual descriptions of color and light, the passionate characters, the sensitive experiences of love and pain depicted in Rain moved me a great deal. Rain is really a trip..." - Dr. Timothy Leary "It was Bosch’s poetic language which first attracted me to Rain, but his unprejudiced mixing of ethnicity, different sexual persuasions, gender and diverse personalities is unique and most refreshing..." - Meri Nan-Ama Danquah "Only Guillermo Bosch could blend the political and erotic with such ease..." - David Freeman, A Hollywood Education

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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From the Publisher

One man is taken through a series of extraordinary, unearthly encounters that promise to change not only his life, but the course of civilization around him.

About the Author

Guillermo Bosch was born at the end of The Second Great World War. After training by the Jesuits, he entered university to prepare for a career in law, but his participation in radical movements lead to his indictment and a warrant for his arrest. He fled to north lands of snow and ice where he lived in exile for ten years. When Bosch returned, he was aprehended, and placed under house arrest. After his release during the Dark Years of Greed, Bosch moved to The Western Ocean where he writes novels and poetry. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Masquerade Books; 1st Richard Kasak book ed edition (September 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1563332329
• ISBN-13: 978-1563332326
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,389,218 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars A must-read, December 14, 2011

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J. Gates (NC, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rain (Paperback)

Brutal, honest, raw and exquisitely worded, RAIN tells the story of revolution and one man's discovery of faith and self.

Sandro, a country boy from a wet and fertile sea-side village, walks into the big city on the 1,537th day of the drought. In the city, he becomes a gray man, seeing but not seen. He watches the city crumble around him, enfolding him in its passions and hatreds. Eventually he becomes the Chosen One, a magical Messiah who is prophesied to bring back the rain.

Sandro starts the story as a simple, healthy young man, and by the time he climbs the mountain to seek the rain, he is physically broken and mutilated, nearly unrecognizable as the idealistic kid who walked into the city. His inner journey is as brutal and destructive as the outer one, irrevocably changing him in one of the most powerful explorations of self and destiny that fantasy literature has to offer. The world changes around him, slowly turning to a new course. They are irrevocably influenced by each other.

Bosch uses classic themes in his writing, drawing from classic literature, fantasy and fairy-tales alike. A farm boy who struggles with the knowledge that he is the Chosen One. A city at war with itself, the fall of one power to the rebels, who in turn become the next despotic power. Rain at surface glance is simply an erotic fairy-tale. A brutal, beautifully written erotic story.

RAIN is filled with powerful, tortured characters: the Publisher whose power with words shapes the city, the gypsy-fortune teller who opens Sandro's eyes, the decrepit old throw-aways of the work-camp, La Brujah. Bosch's characters are larger than life, dirty and hopeless, yet clear and memorable. Bosch doesn't go in depth, he doesn't pick them apart. He presents them at face value and the reader is left to their own conclusions.

When I read Rain, I want to brush my hands together to clean off the sand. The work-camp depresses me; the City fascinates me as much as it must have fascinated Sandro. Cell phones, helicopters, wagons, drought and gypsies blend together into a wonderful cacophony of the modern, the mystical and the medieval. I don't think it is possible to label his world, or the people in it. It's a true melting pot of society, of past and present and future.

Rain somehow melds fantasy and science-fiction, modern reality and a chilling look at a possible future where water and words are the power. The style of the book would fit well with the original 'fairy-tale', where things don't always end happily ever after, and people really are that bad. The City could be America in ten years, but looks chillingly like America now, with corporations failing and the government saving them at the expense of its own people.

Rain is an excellent read, although not for those afraid of sex or violence, the the voice of the character echoes long after the book is put aside; it straddles a fine line between fantasy and reality, one that There are many passages that are best written down and considered at great length, and which I often quote. The last line of the book, beautiful on its own, truly resonates and humbles when taken in context with the rest of the story.

"And I have resolved that whatever else happens, on the day I die, when all of these memories pass before my eyes for one last time, I will smile and sat, despite all I have been through, "It's truly been a wonderful life."
And it has." ~Sandro

4.0 out of 5 stars Food for thought and provocation, November 19, 2011

By 

Vincent Meis, author of EDDIE'S DESERT ROSE - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rain (Paperback)

So great to see Rain out in a revised edition. When it exploded on the scene in 1995, it provoked a number of intellectual and moral questions, which are perhaps even more appropriate for the complex social questions we are dealing with now. Beware, Bosch does not shy away from the passionate and sexual, but the rich language and literary images stimulate both the body and the mind.

5.0 out of 5 stars an extraordinarily erotic tale, January 3, 1999

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[e-mail] (Hackensack, NJ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rain (Richard Kasak Books) (Paperback)

This one is worth the couple bucks. Desire and desperation in a post-apocalyptic setting. Wish this author would sit down and write about ten others.