Hunts in Dreams (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Tom Drury
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The present
- Setting: Iowa
- Principal Characters: Charles Darling, Joan Darling, Micah Darling, Lyris Darling, Jerry Darling, Octavia Perry, Follard, Colette Darling
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Alienation, Abandoned children, Midwest, Stepfamily, Iowa
- Locales: Iowa
Tom Drury began his literary career as a short-story writer and had many pieces published in the United States’ most prestigious literary magazine, The New Yorker. When the time came for him to try his hand at a novel, he incorporated these minimalist stories into The End of Vandalism (1994), which was enthusiastically reviewed although it lacked a plot. Drury was raised in Iowa but currently lives with his wife and daughter in Connecticut, where he teaches at Wesleyan University. In his second novel he tried to write about the East Coast, and The Black Brook...
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