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Article: Coe, Jonathan. The Rain before It Falls.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
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COE, Jonathan. The rain before it falls. Read by Jenny Agutter. 6 cds. 7 hrs. BBC Audiobooks America/Sound Library. 2008. 978-0-7827-52547. $64.95. Vinyl; plot, author, reader notes. A
Coe has written an elegant piece of literary fiction that spans three generations of a Shropshire, England family. Terminally ill and looking to hasten her impending death, elderly maiden aunt Rosamunde has one thing she must do first: record an oral family history for her cousin Beatrix's blind and long-estranged grandchild, Imogene. Her legacy to Imogene, who was last seen as a young child 20 years before the novel opens, consists of four tapes that narrate the substance and ...