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In Pacific, 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 of his league in a land of magical freedom. Back in the Midwest, an ethereal young woman comes to Stone City on a mission that will unsettle the lives of everyone she meets--including Micah's half-sister, Lyris, and his father, Tiny, a petty thief. An investigation into the stranger's identity uncovers a darkly disturbed life, as parallel narratives of the comic and tragic, the mysterious and quotidian, unfold in both the country and the city.
About the author
Tom Drury, geboren 1956 in Iowa, zählt zu den wichtigsten amerikanischen Schriftstellern seiner Generation und seine Bücher gelten als moderne Klassiker. Seine Texte wurden unter anderem in "The New Yorker" und in "Harper's Magazine" publiziert. Drury lebt mit seiner Familie in Los Angeles.
Summary
In Hunts in Dreams – a follow-up to his acclaimed debut The End of Vandalism – Tom Drury returns to the Midwest to spend a life- changing autumn weekend in the company of a family whose members all want something without knowing how to get it: for Charles (a.k.a. ‘Tiny’) it’s an heirloom shotgun; for his wife, Joan, the imaginative life she once knew; for their young son, Micah, a sense of the limits of his world (in search of which he prowls the empty streets at night); and for Joan’s daughter, Lyris, a stable base from which to begin to grow up.
Original but never showy, full of heart yet not sentimental, and funny in ways that call for a new adjective, Hunts in Dreams is a remarkable, entirely delightful novel from a modern master.
