Don Carpenter
Born
in Berkeley, California, The United States
March 16, 1931
Died
July 28, 1995
Hard Rain Falling
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25 editions
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1966
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Fridays at Enrico's
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18 editions
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published
2014
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A Couple of Comedians
8 editions
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published
1979
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The Hollywood Trilogy: A Couple of Comedians, The True Story of Jody McKeegan, and Turnaround
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2014
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The Class of '49
6 editions
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published
1985
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The True Life Story of Jody McKeegan
3 editions
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published
1975
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Turnaround
4 editions
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published
1981
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From a Distant Place
3 editions
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published
1988
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Blade of Light
7 editions
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published
1969
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Murder of the Frogs and Other Stories
4 editions
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1969
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“I consider my work optimistic in that the people, during the period I’m writing about them, are experiencing intense emotion. It is my belief that this is all there is to it.”
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“How do you wake up? It was one thing to know that you had been asleep all your life, but something else to wake up from it, to find out you were really alive and it wasn't anybody's fault but your own. Of course that was the problem.
All right. Everything is a dream. Nothing hangs together. You move from one dream to another and there is no reason for the change. Your eyes see things and your ears hear, but nothing has any reason behind it. It would be easier to believe in God. Then you could wake up and yawn and stretch and grin at a world that was put together on a plan of mercy and death, punishment for evil, joy for good, and if the game was crazy at least it had rules. But that didn't make sense. It had never made any sense. The trouble was, now that he was not asleep and not awake, what he saw and heard didn't make sense either.
Mishmash, he thought. You know enough to know how you feel is senseless, but you don't know enough to know why.”
― Hard Rain Falling
All right. Everything is a dream. Nothing hangs together. You move from one dream to another and there is no reason for the change. Your eyes see things and your ears hear, but nothing has any reason behind it. It would be easier to believe in God. Then you could wake up and yawn and stretch and grin at a world that was put together on a plan of mercy and death, punishment for evil, joy for good, and if the game was crazy at least it had rules. But that didn't make sense. It had never made any sense. The trouble was, now that he was not asleep and not awake, what he saw and heard didn't make sense either.
Mishmash, he thought. You know enough to know how you feel is senseless, but you don't know enough to know why.”
― Hard Rain Falling
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