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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Fantastic book, easygoing, gentle, good-natured and funny. Sharply observed with brilliant dialogue, but yet somehow dreamlike and drifting. And the scene towards the end in Micah's school with them playing The National I just loved. ( ) Once again Tom Drury leads us into the world of Charles “Tiny” Darling, his former wife, Joan, and their two children, Lyris and Micah. Joan is now living in California and Micah is heading out to live with her. Lyris has started her own life with Albert Robeshaw, but she is periodically mothered by Tiny’s first wife, Louise, who is now married to Dan Norman, the former sheriff. Their lives entwine and go their separate ways. Joy and sadness, infidelity and faithfulness mingle. Violence and disappointment sometimes erupt. And underneath is a swift current of myth or madness. Drury has settled in to his style in this novel. He moves easily between his characters, unsurprised by the sometimes surprising things they say. If he is sometimes lost, he is no more lost than his characters, especially Micah and Tiny. And as ever, there is a general feeling that this just might be the way life really is, in spite of the almost palpable love that seems to surround everyone. Maybe it’s just the way Drury wishes life were. Warmly recommended. no reviews | add a review
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HTML: In a triumphant return to the characters thatlaunched his career two decades ago, Tom Drury travels back to Grouse County,the setting of his landmark debut, TheEnd of Vandalism. Drury's depictions of the stark beauty of the Midwest andthe futility of American wanderlust have earned him comparisons to RaymondCarver, Sherwood Anderson, and Paul Auster.When fourteen-year-old Micah Darling travelsto Los Angeles to reunite with the mother, who deserted him seven years ago, hefinds himself out of his league in a land of magical freedom. He does new drugswith new people, falls in love with an enchanting but troubled equestriennenamed Charlotte, and gets thrown out of school over the activities of a clubcalled the New Luddites.Back in the Midwest, an ethereal young womancomes to Stone City on a mission that will unsettle the lives of everyone shemeetsâ??including Micah's half-sister, Lyris, who still fights fears ofabandonment after a childhood in foster care, and Micah's father, Tiny, a pettythief. An investigation into the stranger's identity uncovers a darklydisturbed life, as parallel narratives of the comic and tragic, the mysteriousand the everyday, unfold in both the country and the city.A portrait of two disparate communitiesunited by the restlessness and desperate hope of their residents, Drury'shaunted souls, adrift between promise and circumstance, reveal our infinitecapacity to "get in and out of trouble in unexpected ways" and still find asemblance of peace at the end. No library descriptions found. |
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