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Title: Hunts in Dreams

Author: Tom Drury

Narrator: Lloyd James

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-30-13

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

In his follow up to The End of Vandalism, Drury depicts a quiet, Midwestern October weekend in the lives of the Darling family, whose members all want something without knowing how to get it: for Charles, an heirloom shotgun; for his wife, Joan, the imaginative life she once knew; for their young son, Micah, a knowledge of the scope of his world, aided by prowling the empty town at night; and for Joan's daughter, Lyris, a stable home where she can begin to grow up. Sometimes together, other times crucially apart, the Darlings move through a series of vivid encounters that demonstrate how even the most provisional family can endure in its own particular way.

Members Reviews:

A strange and lovely inside look

Nothing Nobel Prize worthy here, but a sweet story, well written. Great sense of place and Drury explores the dynamic of a strange cast of family characters in a realistic, yet poetic way. And don't strange characters comprise all of our families when you get right to it?

The Pick of the Litter

Among the many fine young novelists who keep reassuring us that the art of writing and storytelling is not even a little ill, let alone dead, Tom Drury extends his credentials as one of our better new novelists with this choice little novel Hunts in Dreams. In much the same way as gifted painters can select a few ordinary, mundane objects, study them , arrange them and light them, then paint that Still Life in a way that we as observors can "discover" beauty, so is the method for Drury's composition of words. This man speaks with such clarity of detail without any wasted motion, seeks out or creates characters who if they passed us on a street would go noticed, and with these gifts he creates vibrant story and mood and, yes, introspection. Who among us has not encountered on same level the day to day inspirations and tragedies that confront this quietly dysfuntional family unit? The choices his characters make feel logical in their own thwarted ways. In 200 pages and in a time frame of four days Drury synthesizes what has happened to us in America, making the manageble scope of a small Midwestern town applicable to even our largest megopolis. This is such FINE writing that it begs for repeated readings ......even in groups, aloud, so that the humanity it embraces gains a shared voice among people for whom you care. Highly recommended!

Five Stars

a king of the banal!

Best Yet

Tom Drury is one of those gifted writers who deserves wider attention than he has. After the publication of his first novel, The End of Vandalism, Granta chose Drury as one of America's best young novelists. With Hunts in Dreams, he makes good on that promise. Drury is a master of dialogue who can show the emotional distance between husband and wife in just one exchange. His style in this book is deceptively simple, often masking layers of symbolism. His characters are quirky midwesterners who spend a weekend searching for meaning in a largely indifferent universe. One of them stops at nothing to retrieve an antique gun once owned by his stepfather. A seven-year-old boy wanders the town at night surprising himself with his adult thoughts while wielding his secret six-shooter pistol. These characters often try to root themselves in the present by identifying with their pasts -- and they don't always succeed.

Drury is at his best -- and funniest -- in the details.