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£12.00
Published
07 July 2015
PB with flaps
9781910400074
Ebook
9781910400081
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By Tom Drury:

 

In this mesmerizing novel – a follow-up to The End of Vandalism – Tom Drury once again journeys to the quiet Midwest to spend an action-packed October weekend in the lives of a precarious family whose members all want something without knowing how to get it: for Charles, an heirloom shotgun; for his wife, Joan, the imaginative life she once knew; for their young son, Micah, a knowledge of the scope and reliability of his world, aided by prowling the empty town at night; and for Joan’s daughter, Lyris, a stable foot from which to begin to grow up.

Sometimes together, sometimes crucially apart, father, mother, son, and daughter move through a series of vivid encounters that demonstrate how even the most provisional family can endure in its own particular way.

Old Street Publishing Hunts in Dreams

In this mesmerizing novel – a follow-up to The End of Vandalism – Tom Drury once again journeys to the quiet Midwest to spend an action-packed October weekend in the lives of a precarious family whose members all want something without knowing how to get it: for Charles, an heirloom shotgun; for his wife, Joan, the imaginative life she once knew; for their young son, Micah, a knowledge of the scope and reliability of his world, aided by prowling the empty town at night; and for Joan’s daughter, Lyris, a stable foot from which to begin to grow up.

Sometimes together, sometimes crucially apart, father, mother, son, and daughter move through a series of vivid encounters that demonstrate how even the most provisional family can endure in its own particular way.

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"A major figure in American literature, author of a string of novels without a dud in the bunch… Drury gives us the wondrous and engaging stuff of real storytelling."
New York Times

 
 
  • "Here’s an author who sees and hears what others either miss or fail to note the significance of"
    Richard Russo
  • "Drury is a truly great writer." —Esquire
  • "An absolutely delightful writer who has carved out a world of his own in American fiction, one that is odd, revealing, and yet filled with love" —Library Journal
 
 

Tom Drury's fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's and in Granta magazine, where he was chosen as a 'Best Young American Novelist' in 1996. As well as The End of Vandalism, he is the author of Hunts in Dreams, Pacific, The Driftless Area (soon to be a major motion picture) and The Black Brook. He currently lives in New York City.