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Exit the Rainmaker
Exit the Rainmaker
Author: Jonathan Coleman
ISBN-13: 9780440207528
ISBN-10: 0440207525
Publication Date: 1990
Pages: 401
Rating:
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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3.8 stars, based on 13 ratings
Publisher: Bantam Books
Book Type: Paperback
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BethC avatar reviewed Exit the Rainmaker on + 17 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
This is a true story of a man who walked out on his life. He was successful, seemingly happy and one day he just left. It shows the inner workings of this man's experiences and a glimpse of a life many people may have fantasized about. It also offers some insights into why people make the choices they do and explores the darker hidden side of humanity.
reviewed Exit the Rainmaker on + 94 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
One morning a successful community college president and community leader disappeared. Days later, enigmatic messages are received by his beautiful, socialite wife and several close friends. He makes it clear that he will not return. His journey toward a new life, and the effects of his decisions, make for fascinating reading. A great psychological study.
SteeelMagnolia avatar reviewed Exit the Rainmaker on
Helpful Score: 1
I read this book some years ago and it has stuck with me for all that time. Maybe it is because somewhere in my psyche I have had those thoughts of just walking away and to read about someone (Jay Carsey) who actually did it has intrigued me. If you have ever, even once, had the thought cross your mind about chucking it all and just walking away, I think this book will intrigue you, too.
Readnmachine avatar reviewed Exit the Rainmaker on + 1435 more book reviews
The more time I spent reading âExit the Rainmakerâ, the more intensely I came to dislike its main character, college president Julian Nance Carsey, who in 1982 walked away from a life many would have envied.

Author Jonathan Coleman's attempts to make sense of this true story and to transmit to the reader a true understanding of what prompted Carsey wallows along for almost 400 pages, and is bloated with a cast of characters who thought they knew the successful and popular âUncle Jayâ.

It all boils down, apparently, to the fact that Carsey, after breaking up the first marriage of the woman who became his wife, tired of her and her ambitions for him, and rather than standing up and saying âI want a divorceâ, chose instead to simply leave for work one morning and never return. The first section of the book concentrates on the early search for the missing administrator and on determining whether he had met with foul play or, contrarily, if he had been guilty of some crime and had fled to avoid discovery. When neither of these scenarios proves true, one can only fall back on the reality that he walked away in some Huckleberry Finn odyssey to find âfreedomâ, regardless of the confidences betrayed and relationships shattered in so doing.

This reader never came to an acceptance that Carsey was emotionally and psychologically running for his life; only that he was tired of being a grown-up and turned his considerable intelligence into an elaborate plan to become a perpetual adolescent.
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WOW! This book is fascinating. I couldn't wait to be able to get back to it. It is a wonderful & complex exploration of the human psyche & such an excellent indepth venture through many different relationship dynamics. I would highly recommend it to everyone who is, or ever has been, in a long term committed relationship or career path/job. GREAT read!!