The Driftless Area Contributor(s): Drury, Tom (Author) |
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ISBN: 0802143040 ISBN-13: 9780802143044 Publisher: Grove Press OUR PRICE: $11.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2007 Annotation: In its tender, cool irony, "The Driftless Area" recalls the best of neonoir, and its cast of bona fide small-town eccentrics adrift in the American Midwest makes for a deeply pleasurable read from a beloved author. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Crime - Fiction | Psychological |
Dewey: FIC |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.5" W x 8.2" (0.57 lbs) 224 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The new novel from the award-winning author of The End of Vandalism is a wry and sophisticated heist drama. 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 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. For nothing is as it seems in The Driftless Area. Identities shift, violent secrets lie in wait, the future can cause the past, and love becomes a mission that can take you beyond this world. In its tender, cool irony, The Driftless Area recalls the best of neonoir, and its cast of bona fide small-town eccentrics adrift in the American Midwest make for a clever and deeply pleasurable read from one of our most beloved authors. |