The Driftless Area

It was like patriotism in that you could throw it out there on the side of whatever ill-advised thing you wanted to do.

major figure in American literature, author of a string of novels without a dud in the bunch … Drury gives us the wondrous and engaging stuff of real storytelling.’ NEW YORK TIMES
‘Drury is a big-time American talent’ JONATHAN FRANZEN
‘Tom Drury’s spooky neo-noir novel proves there is no one better at tangling up the lives of small Midwestern weirdos’ VANITY FAIR on The Driftless Area
‘Drury is enormously skilled … this fine novel ends with a tug-of-war between the spiritual we don’t altogether trust and the grind we’re somehow unable to resist’ NEW YORK TIMES on The Driftless Area
‘A near-masterpiece … Drury imbues the landscape with an impersonal, threatening and ancient chill …