Because the Rain - Hardcover

Praise for "MORNING DARK: ""Overstuffed with detail, but always the right ones: a messy kind of perfect."--"Kirkus Reviews""Buckman is a master of character development and interpersonal analysis, and his slice-of-life tale of family dysfunction is right on target. Many men will identify with this family as they struggle to save themselves from the war still raging within. Highly recommended."--Thomas L. Kilpatrick, "Library Journal" (starred review)"In the tradition of Tim O'Brien and Larry Brown... [an] intense effort."--"Publishers Weekly""The terrifying and wonderful achievement of Buckman's novel is its willingness to dramatize a hard but rarely acknowledged truth the hysterical fear and hatred of the racial other is as American as apple pie and the smart bomb."--Jeffery Renard Allen, "Chicago"" Tribune""William Faulkner would have found much to recognize and admire in Daniel Buckman's "MORNING DARK.""--Tom Nolan, "San Francisco Chronicle""" Praise for "THE NAMES OF RIVERS""Let the word go out: There's a new Hemingway loose in America. "THE NAMES OF RIVERS" is a stunning look into the dark violence at the root of men's souls. It will leave you sickened like a gut-punch, but it will also make you want to come back for more."--"San Francisco Chronicle""Buckman's intensely written second novel displays a remarkably exacting touch with his lead characters and supporting cast [and] surefooted storytelling skills." --"Publishers Weekly""Austerely beautiful prose. An elliptical, memorable read."--"Booklist""Another episode of the literature of Crane and Bierce, Hemingway and Faulkner, Jones and Mailer, Heinemann and O'Brien, a literature that has its own sort of redemptive power that comes from setting down what is never carved in marble or celebrated on national holidays."--"Chicago"" Tribune""

DANIEL BUCKMAN served as a paratrooper with the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division. Because the Rain is his fourth novel.