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£12.00
Published
24 February 2015
PB with flaps
9781910400050
Ebook
9781910400067
Press Release
By Tom Drury:

 

Welcome to Grouse County, somewhere in the Midwest, where the towns are small but the people, their dreams and their eccentricities come in all sizes.

When Sheriff Dan Norman arrests local troublemaker Tiny Darling for vandalising an anti-vandalism dance, he doesn’t expect much in the way of fallout. But unseen wheels have been set in motion, and lives will be changed: Dan finds love, Tiny loses his wife Louise, and all three travel an epic journey of the heart.

The End of Vandalism is full of small miracles of observation, compassion and humour, held together by the ‘electric deadpan’ of Drury’s celebrated style. For those readers willing to tune in, the experience will be a revelation.

Old Street Publishing The End of Vandalism

Welcome to Grouse County, somewhere in the Midwest, where the towns are small but the people, their dreams and their eccentricities come in all sizes.

When Sheriff Dan Norman arrests local troublemaker Tiny Darling for vandalising an anti-vandalism dance, he doesn’t expect much in the way of fallout. But unseen wheels have been set in motion, and lives will be changed: Dan finds love, Tiny loses his wife Louise, and all three travel an epic journey of the heart.

The End of Vandalism is full of small miracles of observation, compassion and humour, held together by the ‘electric deadpan’ of Drury’s celebrated style. For those readers willing to tune in, the experience will be a revelation.

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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

 
 
  • "One of the past half-century's finest novels … A masterpiece"
    —Independent on Sunday
  • "A warning: if you read The End of Vandalism you will become one of those people who try to foist it upon other people, your eyes shining with the unsettling delight of having lived through it."
    —Jon McGregor
  • "Drury is a big-time American talent."
    —Jonathan Franzen
  • "When I first saw a copy I noted that Jonathan Franzen was quoted on the front. At the time I thought Drury had done well to get such an endorsement. Now I've read The End of Vandalism, I realise it's the other way round. To be associated with something this good would be an honour for any writer" INDEPENDENT —Independent
  • "Brilliant, wonderfully funny… It's hard to think of any novel – let alone a first novel – in which you can hear the voice of the people so well. This is indeed deadpan humour, and Tom Drury is its master."
    —Annie Dillard
  • "Richly observant… wonderful"
    —Guardian
 
 

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.