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  • THE BLACK BROOK
    TOM DRURY
    A small-time art forger runs afoul of the New England mob in this comic crime novel from the author of The End of Vandalism: "One of our living masters" ( McSweeney's).   Paul Emmons has his faults—envy, lust, naiveté, money laundering, and art forgery to name a few. A fallen accountant and scamster, Emmons and his wife, Mary, are exiled abroad, though they enjoy inadvisable re...

    $179.00

  • PACIFIC
    TOM DRURY
    "A truly great writer" returns to the Midwest characters and setting of his landmark debut novel, The End of Vandalism ( Esquire).   When fourteen-year-old Micah Darling travels to Los Angeles to reunite with the mother who abandoned him seven years ago, he finds himself out of his league in a land of magical freedom. He does new drugs with new people, falls in love with an enc...

    $179.00

  • THE LAST STAND OF FOX COMPANY
    BOB DRURY / TOM CLAVIN
    "The authors of the bestselling  Halsey's Typhoon do a fine job recounting one brutal, small-unit action during the Korean War's darkest moment." — Publishers Weekly   November 1950, the Korean Peninsula. After General MacArthur ignores Mao's warnings and pushes his UN forces deeper into North Korea, his 10,000 First Division Marines find themselves surrounded and hopelessly ou...

    $251.00

  • THE END OF VANDALISM
    TOM DRURY
    Set in rural Iowa, this "breathtaking . . . remarkable achievement" of a debut novel by the author of Pacific is "at once funny, sad, and touching" ( New York Newsday).   A New York Magazine and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year   With extensive excerpts appearing in the New Yorker before its release, Tom Drury's groundbreaking debut,  The End of Vandalism, drew widesprea...

    $169.00

  • HUNTS IN DREAMS
    TOM DRURY
    The award-winning author of The End of Vandalism pens "a gorgeous, inexplicably sad and funny novel about screwups trying to do better" ( Salon).   In this mesmerizing novel, Tom Drury once again journeys to the quiet Midwest to spend an action-packed October weekend in the lives of a precarious family whose members all want something without knowing how to get it: for Charles,...

    $169.00

  • THE DRIFTLESS AREA
    TOM DRURY
    From the award-winning author of The End of Vandalism. "Equal parts heist caper, ghost story and romance . . . in prose that is spare and sly." ( The New York Times)   Set in the rugged region of the Midwest that gives the novel its title,  The Driftless Area is the story of Pierre Hunter, a young bartender with unfailing optimism, a fondness for coin tricks, and an uncanny cap...

    $159.00

  • HALSEY'S TYPHOON
    BOB DRURY / TOM CLAVIN
    This account of a disaster at sea during World War II is "a powerful and engrossing story of tragedy, survival, and heroism" (Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down) .   In the final days of 1944, Admiral William "Bull" Halsey is the Pacific theater's most popular and colorful naval hero. After a string of victories, the "Fighting Admiral" and his thirty-thousand-man Third Flee...

    $274.00