{ "item_title" : "Driftless", "item_author" : [" David Rhodes "], "item_description" : "A fast-moving story about small town life with characters that seem to have walked off the pages of Edgar Lee Masters's Spoon River Anthology.--The Wall Street JournalThe few hundred souls who inhabit Words, Wisconsin, are an extraordinary cast of characters. The middle-aged couple who zealously guards their farm from a scheming milk cooperative. The lifelong invalid, crippled by conflicting emotions about her sister. A cantankerous retiree, haunted by childhood memories after discovering a cougar in his haymow. The former drifter who forever alters the ties that bind a community. In his first novel in 30 years, David Rhodes offers a vivid and unforgettable look at life in small-town America. Rhodes's] finest work yet . . . Driftless is the best work of fiction to come out of the Midwest in many years.--Chicago TribuneSet in a rural Wisconsin town, the book presents a series of portraits that resemble Edgar Lee Masters's 'Spoon River Anthology' in their vividness and in the cumulative picture they create of village life.--The New YorkerEncompassing and incisive, comedic and profound, Driftless is a radiant novel of community and courage.--Booklist (starred review)A welcome antidote to overheated urban fiction . . . A quiet novel of depth and simplicity.--Kirkus ReviewsIt takes a while for all these stories to kick in, but once they do, Rhodes shows he still knows how to keep readers riveted. Add a blizzard, a marauding cougar and some rabble-rousing militiamen, and the result is a novel that is as affecting as it is pleasantly overstuffed.--Publishers Weekly", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/57/131/068/1571310681_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "16.00", "online_price" : "16.00", "our_price" : "16.00", "club_price" : "16.00", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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