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Driftless
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General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $16.00
ISBN13: 9781571310682
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: May 5 2009
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
Awards: Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award
A fast-moving story about small town life with characters that seem to have walked off the pages of Edgar Lee Masters's Spoon River Anthology.--The Wall Street Journal
The few hundred souls who inhabit Words, Wisconsin, are an extraordinary cast of characters. The middle-aged couple who zealously guards their farm from a scheming milk cooperative. The lifelong invalid, crippled by conflicting emotions about her sister. A cantankerous retiree, haunted by childhood memories after discovering a cougar in his haymow. The former drifter who forever alters the ties that bind a community. In his first novel in 30 years, David Rhodes offers a vivid and unforgettable look at life in small-town America.
[Rhodes's] finest work yet . . . Driftless is the best work of fiction to come out of the Midwest in many years.--Chicago Tribune
Set in a rural Wisconsin town, the book presents a series of portraits that resemble Edgar Lee Masters's 'Spoon River Anthology' in their vividness and in the cumulative picture they create of village life.--The New Yorker
Encompassing and incisive, comedic and profound, Driftless is a radiant novel of community and courage.--Booklist (starred review)
A welcome antidote to overheated urban fiction . . . A quiet novel of depth and simplicity.--Kirkus Reviews
It takes a while for all these stories to kick in, but once they do, Rhodes shows he still knows how to keep readers riveted. Add a blizzard, a marauding cougar and some rabble-rousing militiamen, and the result is a novel that is as affecting as it is pleasantly overstuffed.--Publishers Weekly
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