Ebook {Epub PDF} Pacific by Tom Drury

 · Pacific is Drury's third novel to revisit many of the characters living in and around Grouse County, a tiny farm community that in some way resembles (but is not, he insists) the small Iowa town where he was born in (The second is Hunts in Dreams, released in ). Sheriff Dan Norman has retired; his redheaded wife, born Louise Montrose, has moved on from photography and now runs Brand: Grove/Atlantic, Inc. Tom Drury is the author of Pacific, The End of Vandalism, Hunts in Dreams, The Driftless Area, and The Black Brook. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, and the Mississippi Review. Drury has been a Guggenheim Fellow and was named one of Granta‘s “Best Young American Novelists.” He lives in New York. Drury's fiction is chockablock with tiny epics unfurling and resolving in quick, universally funny vignettes. In Pacific, these center around the characters from his debut, The End of Vandalism, certainly among the funniest, most humane American novels of the last quarter-century/5(56).

"Pacific is a terrific book, and a strange one, as strange as the world and the great literature that helps us make our way through it." —The New York Times Book Review "On the surface, Pacific is a disarmingly plain tale about people managing loss. But look closer, and you'll see it's as deep as the ocean it's named after.". FICTION: An Iowa boy negotiates a new life in California. 'Pacific,' by Tom Drury. Don Waters. Updated: p.m. Facebook Twitter Email. 3. 1 of 3 Tom Drury Tom Drury Show More Show Less 2 of 3 Pacific, by Tom Drury Grove Press.

Tom Drury "Reading Pacific makes me once again fall in love with Drury's words, and his perception of a world that is full of dangers and passions and mysteries and graces."—Yiyun Li " It's just a beautiful book of quiet power that deserves recognition as a contemporary classic."—McSweeney's Recommends. Pacific is Drury's third novel to revisit many of the characters living in and around Grouse County, a tiny farm community that in some way resembles (but is not, he insists) the small Iowa town where he was born in (The second is Hunts in Dreams, released in ). Sheriff Dan Norman has retired; his redheaded wife, born Louise Montrose, has moved on from photography and now runs a thrift shop; Louise's onetime husband Tiny Darling is up to his usual small-time malfeasance, and a. This is from “Pacific,” the new book by Tom Drury, a major figure in American literature, author of a string of novels without a dud in the bunch, and the kind of writer some people just don.