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Hunts In Dreams (2000)

by Tom Drury(Favorite Author)

3.87 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0802145612 (ISBN13: 9780802145611)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Grove Press

review 1: Won this in a Good Reads / First Reads giveaway. What a glorious, peculiar slip of a novel. Drury cannot be classified -- his fiction feels almost reverie-like, or like ethereal folk art, however oxymoronic that sounds. The moments (e.g. Charles considering the lives of the people aboard a plane twinkling along in the night sky above him, Micah's foray into the night at his grandmother's house) are perhaps more stirring and memorable than the work as a whole, but it's a luminous little novel to be sure -- and one I plan to re-read down the road. Reading it (or Drury's even better The Driftless Area) feels at times like one feels when listening to Mazzy Star's "Fade into You." And if you love that song, you know what I'm talking about and are likely opening a new tab on you... morer browser to order this book this very moment.
review 2: I suspect the World can be conveniently divided into two sets of people: those who see the wonder of the sentence "Charles Darling lived with his wife Joan, their son Micah, and Joan's daughter Lyris on two acres south of the town of Boris.", and those who can't. HUNTS IN DREAMS tells the story of the Darlings over the course of a weekend, as they experience their quotidian crises. Like all Drury, it's brilliantly understated, full of sly humor and unostentatiously effective descriptions. less

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