{"product_id":"the-end-of-vandalism-paperback","title":"The End of Vandalism - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTom Drury\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSet in rural Iowa, this \"breathtaking . . . remarkable achievement\" of a debut novel by the author of \u003ci\u003ePacific\u003c\/i\u003e is \"at once funny, sad, and touching\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York Newsday\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMagazine\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith extensive excerpts appearing in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e before its release, Tom Drury's groundbreaking debut, \u003ci\u003eThe End of Vandalism\u003c\/i\u003e, drew widespread acclaim and comparison to the works of Sherwood Anderson and William Faulkner.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith his fictional Grouse County, Tom Drury conjures a Midwest that is at once familiar and amusingly eccentric--where a thief vacuums the church before stealing the chalice, a lonely woman paints her toenails in a drafty farmhouse, and a sleepless man watches his restless bride scatter their bills beneath the stars.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Sheriff Dan Norman arrests Tiny Darling for vandalizing an anti-vandalism dance, he goes on to marry the culprit's ex-wife Louise. But while Tiny loses Louise, Louise loses her sense of self--and all three find themselves in a love triangle that sets them on an epic journey.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A truly great writer.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Grouse County is unabashedly American, a setting both nostalgic and wittily contemporary.\"\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e--The Boston Globe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA thief vacuums the church before stealing the chalice....A lonely woman paints her toenails in a drafty farmhouse....A sleepless man watches his restless bride scatter their bills beneath the stars....Welcome to Grouse County....\u003cbr\u003e\"Tom Drury's loving, wryly intelligent take on Grouse County is at once sophisticated and compassionate. Drury's prose is quietly heartbreaking, laugh-out-loud funny, and always, absolutely convincing. The End of Vandalism marks the beginning of a distinguished American career.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Jayne Anne Phillips\u003cbr\u003e\"Remarkable...Every so often a debut novel appears that simply stuns you with the elegance and beauty of its writing....A+\"\u003cbr\u003e--Entertainment Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\"So amiably dense with anecdote and observation, the reader is bounced along by its energy....Grouse County is unabashedly American, a setting both nostalgic and wittily contemporary....In a sense, the main character is the county itself, with its eccentricities, rituals, quarrels and comforts.\"\u003cbr\u003e--The Boston Sunday Globe\u003cbr\u003e\"Brilliant, wonderfully funny...It's hard to think of any novel--let alone a first novel--in which you can hear the people so well. This is indeed deadpan humor, and Tom Drury is its master.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Annie Dillard\u003cbr\u003e\"Rich and readable...[Drury] possesses his made-up world with the same authority Sherwood Anderson brought to Winesburg, Ohio, and Faulkner to Yoknapatawpha County....The many characters who walk their separate paths end up weaving each other inside a mysterious pattern, in which they themselves are also caught.\"\u003cbr\u003e--USA Today\u003cbr\u003eChosen by New York magazine and Publishers Weekly as\u003cbr\u003eONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 1994\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTom Drury\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003ePacific\u003c\/i\u003e, longlisted for the National Book Award; \u003ci\u003eThe End of Vandalism\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eHunts in Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Driftless Area\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Black Brook\u003c\/i\u003e. His fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eMississippi Review\u003c\/i\u003e. Drury has been a Guggenheim Fellow and was named one of \u003ci\u003eGranta's\u003c\/i\u003e \"Best Young American Novelists.\" He lives in Iowa.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.98 x 8.12 x 6.44 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 02, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50401432731885,"sku":"9780802142702","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/products\/the-end-of-vandalism-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}