Hunts in Dreams

Name: Hunts in Dreams
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Tom Drury
ISBN: 9781482101188

Author: Tom Drury

Narrator: Lloyd James

Unabridged: 11 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 05/21/2013

Categories: Fiction, Family Life

Synopsis

In his follow up to The End of Vandalism, Drury depicts a quiet, Midwestern October weekend in the lives of the Darling 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 of his world, aided by prowling the empty town at night; and for Joan's daughter, Lyris, a stable home where she can begin to grow up. Sometimes together, other times crucially apart, the Darlings move through a series of vivid encounters that demonstrate how even the most provisional family can endure in its own particular way.

About Tom Drury

Tom Drury is the author of several novels, including The End of Vandalism, Hunts in Dreams, and The Black Brook. His fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s, and the Mississippi Review, and he has been named one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists.

About Lloyd James

Sean Pratt has been a working professional actor in theater, film, television, and voice-overs for more than thirty years. He has narrated over one thousand audiobooks and won numerous Earphones Awards and Audie Award nominations. He holds a BFA degree in acting from Santa Fe University, New Mexico.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Peyton on May 17, 2016

even better than The End of Vandalism, this book is much shorter, darker, less funny but way more hypnotic and sad, but ultimately incredibly moving. successfully reassures the reader that even the smallest moments in the most seemingly meaningless and mundane lives have the greatest meaning. LOVED......more

Goodreads review by Cristina - Athenae Noctua on December 27, 2017

Il secondo capitolo della trilogia di Grouse County è ancor più bello de La fine dei vandalismi, forse per la sensazione di maggiore intimità che trasmette, dal momento che il lettore viene incluso nella storia di una famiglia e non più di una intera comunità. Non è comunque necessario aver lett......more

Goodreads review by Yanina on October 20, 2017

Like a series of stills in front of my eyes.. the landscapes that I knew of before, the personal stories that I heard of...like a flemish painting - its abundance of personalities and their surroundings, let you just for an instant enter their lives, that exist apart from yours, parallelly unparalle......more

Quotes

“Drury is a big-time American talent, and Hunts in Dreams is his best book yet.” Jonathan Franzen, New York Times bestselling author of The Corrections and Freedom

“What a wonderful piece of storytelling…Drury is a truly great writer.” Esquire

“[Drury’s] gift for dead-on realism and unfussy dialogue reveals the humorous, edgy pathos of his characters and invests his story with ambiguity of real life and the poignancy of unrealized dreams.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Warm and funny…wry and weirdly edgy…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.” Library Journal

“Drury never misses a beat—the quiet moments dazzle as much [as] the louder ones.” Kirkus Reviews