Synopses & Reviews
This long-lost novel captures the emotional rhythms of suburban Los Angeles in the early 1970s as five couples experience the throes of middle-class disaffection. Due to unrest, revelation, and disaster, all are compelled to reconsider the choices they've made in this riveting and resonant novel.
Synopsis
Like John Updike's Rabbit novels and Mary McCarthy's The Group, Maritta Wolff's Sudden Rain distills a particular time and place--in this case, Los Angeles in the early 1970s. Each character springs vividly to life; due to unrest, revelation, and disaster, all are compelled to reconsider the choices they've made. Riveting and resonant, this long-lost tour de force is a masterpiece of emotion and keen observation.
About the Author
MARITTA WOLFF (1918-2002) wrote seven novels during her lifetime. Her first, Whistle Stop, was published in 1941 when she was just 22; it won rave reviews, the Avery Hopwood Award, and praise from Sinclair Lewis. Five vibrantly raw best-sellers followed. By the time she wrote her seventh novel, Wolff was fed up with the publishing world. She stored the completed manuscript for Sudden Rain in her refrigerator, where it remained for 30 years.Multiple Audie® Award winner Barbara Rosenblat has been named a "Voice of the Twentieth Century" by AudioFile magazine. The New York Times writes,"Watch Ms. Rosenblat work...and you get the sense that even an Oscar winner might not be able to pull this off." She created the role of "Mrs. Medlock" in the Tony® Award-winning Broadway musical The Secret Garden.