{"product_id":"driftless-9781571310682","title":"Driftless","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“A fast-moving story about small town life with characters that seem to have walked off the pages of Edgar Lee Masters’s Spoon River Anthology.”—\u003cem\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe few hundred souls who inhabit Words, Wisconsin, are an extraordinary cast of characters. The middle-aged couple who zealously guards their farm from a scheming milk cooperative. The lifelong invalid, crippled by conflicting emotions about her sister. A cantankerous retiree, haunted by childhood memories after discovering a cougar in his haymow. The former drifter who forever alters the ties that bind a community. In his first novel in 30 years, David Rhodes offers a vivid and unforgettable look at life in small-town America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Rhodes’s] finest work yet . . . \u003cem\u003eDriftless\u003c\/em\u003e is the best work of fiction to come out of the Midwest in many years.”—\u003cem\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Set in a rural Wisconsin town, the book presents a series of portraits that resemble Edgar Lee Masters’s ‘Spoon River Anthology’ in their vividness and in the cumulative picture they create of village life.”—\u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Encompassing and incisive, comedic and profound, \u003cem\u003eDriftless\u003c\/em\u003e is a radiant novel of community and courage.”—\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A welcome antidote to overheated urban fiction . . . A quiet novel of depth and simplicity.”—\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It takes a while for all these stories to kick in, but once they do, Rhodes shows he still knows how to keep readers riveted. Add a blizzard, a marauding cougar and some rabble-rousing militiamen, and the result is a novel that is as affecting as it is pleasantly overstuffed.”—\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Rhodes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48284504752379,"sku":"9781571310682","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781571310682_d1cb0fad-4912-410e-942f-cf587d1fdfe9.jpg?v=1772484909","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/driftless-9781571310682","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}