In Hunts in Dreams – a follow-up to his acclaimed debut The End of Vandalism – Tom Drury returns to the Midwest to spend a life-changing autumn weekend in the company of a family whose members all want something without knowing how to get it: for Charles (a.k.a. ‘Tiny’) it’s an heirloom shotgun; for his wife, Joan, the imaginative life she once knew; for their young son, Micah, a sense of the limits of his world (in search of which he prowls the empty streets at night); and for Joan’s daughter, Lyris, a stable base from which to begin to grow up.
Original but never showy, full of heart yet not sentimental, and funny in ways that call for a new adjective, Hunts in Dreams is a remarkable, entirely delightful novel from a modern master.
'He can do levity, he can do gravity. He can intimate social commentary and burrow into an individual's soul. A wonder of modern fiction, Drury can do anything he wants.'
—Independant
- ‘Tom Drury has done it again. Hunts in Dreams is guided by a wry and warm-hearted sensibility and populated with appealingly flawed characters whose quirks, desires, and self-contradictions are our own.’
—Wally Lamb - ‘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 - ‘Richly observant… takes you to wonderful places, and spins a fine narrative from the apparent mundanity of lives being lived.’
—Guardian - ‘Drury is a truly great writer.’
—Esquire - 'Drury is a big-time American talent'
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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 (now a major motion picture) and The Black Brook. He currently lives in New York City.