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Hunts in Dreams
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Series: Grouse County, Book 2
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $17.00
ISBN13: 9780802145611
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: May 21 2013
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
The award-winning author of The End of Vandalism pens a gorgeous, inexplicably sad and funny novel about screwups trying to do better (Salon).
In this mesmerizing novel, 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.
A beguiling novel . . . perceptive and captivating.--The New York Times
Entrancing.--The Guardian
Startling and utterly original.--Newsday
Drury is 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
The trick and true pleasure here are in the utterly ordinary context these extraordinary events occur in. Drury never misses a beat--the quiet moments dazzle as much the louder ones.--Kirkus Reviews
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