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1 December 2015
MM PB
9781910400111
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*NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING ZOOEY DESCHANEL”

A wry, sophisticated and at times spooky heist drama set in the remote region of the American Midwest that gives the novel its title, The Driftless Area tells the story of Pierre Hunter, a young bartender with unfailing optimism, a fondness for coin tricks, and an uncanny capacity for finding trouble.

When he falls in love with the mysterious and isolated Stella Rosmarin, Pierre becomes the central player in a revenge drama he must unravel and bring to its shocking conclusion. Along the way he will liberate $77,000 from a murderous thief, summon the resources that have eluded him all his life, and come to question the very meaning of chance and mortality.

Old Street Publishing The Driftless Area (MM)

*NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING ZOOEY DESCHANEL”

A wry, sophisticated and at times spooky heist drama set in the remote region of the American Midwest that gives the novel its title, The Driftless Area tells the story of Pierre Hunter, a young bartender with unfailing optimism, a fondness for coin tricks, and an uncanny capacity for finding trouble.

When he falls in love with the mysterious and isolated Stella Rosmarin, Pierre becomes the central player in a revenge drama he must unravel and bring to its shocking conclusion. Along the way he will liberate $77,000 from a murderous thief, summon the resources that have eluded him all his life, and come to question the very meaning of chance and mortality.

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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

 
 
  • 'Tom Drury's spooky neo-noir novel proves there is no one better at tangling up the lives of small Midwestern weirdos.'
    —Vanity Fair
  • 'A near-masterpiece … Drury imbues the landscape with an impersonal, threatening and ancient chill … reminiscent of Twin Peaks. A hypnotic and memorable read.'
    —Time Out
  • 'Drury is a wonder of modern fiction.'
    —Independent
  • 'Tom Drury is a big-time American talent.'
    —Jonathan Franzen
 
 

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.