{"product_id":"hunts-in-dreams-book-tom-drury-9780802145611","title":"Hunts in Dreams","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe End of Vandalism\u003c\/i\u003e pens \"a gorgeous, inexplicably sad and funny novel about screwups trying to do better\" (\u003ci\u003eSalon\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSometimes 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A beguiling novel . . . perceptive and captivating.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Entrancing.\"\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e--The Guardian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Startling and utterly original.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50362453917969,"sku":"CIN0802145612G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51007468470545,"sku":"NIN9780802145611","price":0.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0802145612.jpg?v=1750882761","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/de-ch\/products\/hunts-in-dreams-buch-tom-drury-9780802145611","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}