Tom Drury

Grouse County

1 - End of Vandalism (Jul-1995)
2 - Alt-Country (May-2013)

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  End of Vandalism
  

  • Jul-1995
  • / Literary
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  Grouse County - 1
  

  Set in rural Iowa, this “breathtaking . . . remarkable achievement” of a debut novel by the author of Pacific is “at once funny, sad, and touching” (New York Newsday).  A New York Magazine and Publishers Weekly Best Book o...

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  The Black Brook
  

  • Jun-1998
  • / General Fiction
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  A small-time art forger runs afoul of the New England mob in this comic crime novel from the author of The End of Vandalism: “One of our living masters” (McSweeney’s).   Paul Emmons has his faults -- envy, lust, naiveté, money laundering,...

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  Hunts in Dreams
  

  • May-2000
  • / General Fiction
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  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 acti...

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  Driftless Area
  

  • Aug-2007
  • / Literary
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  Set in the rugged region of the Midwest that gives the novel its title, The Driftless Area is the story of Pierre Hunter, a young bartender with unfailing optimism, a fondness for coin tricks, and an uncanny capacity for finding trouble: When his gir...

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  Pacific
  

  • May-2013
  • / Literary
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  Tom Drury revisits the community of Grouse County, the setting of his landmark debut, The End of Vandalism. When fourteen-year-old Micah Darling travels to Los Angeles to reunite with the mother who abandoned him seven years ago, he finds himself out...

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  Alt-Country
  

  • May-2013
  • / Literary
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  Grouse County - 2
  

  In a triumphant return to the characters that launched his career two decades ago, Tom Drury travels back to Grouse County, the setting of his landmark debut, The End of Vandalism. Drury’s depictions of the stark beauty of the Midwest and the futil...

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