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Pacific (Paperback)
Tom Drury
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R357
R319
Discovery Miles 3 190
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"Drury is a truly great writer."--Esquire "A beguiling novel . . .
perceptive and captivating."--The New York Times "Startling and
utterly original."--Newsday 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.
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Pacific (Paperback)
Tom Drury
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R267
R217
Discovery Miles 2 170
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Set in the remote, beautiful region of the American Midwest that gives the novel its title, The Driftless Area tells 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.
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