Sudden Rain A Novel

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.

Maritta Wolff was born in 1918 in Michigan. Whistle Stop, her first novel, won the Avery Hopwood Award in 1940. A runaway bestseller, the book was also printed as a special Armed Forces edition for American troops during World War II. Whistle Stop was made into a feature film in 1946, starring Ava Gardner. In the next two decades, Ms. Wolff authored more than five novels, but she hid her final, unpublished manuscript in her refrigerator until her death in 2002. Rediscovered, that novel, Sudden Rain, is available from Scribner.