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Country people : a novel / Daniel Mason.

Summary:

"Miles Krzelewski is a devoted husband, a doting father beloved for his outlandish bedtime stories, and the proud owner of a truffle-hunting dog in a land with no truffles. He is also a bit lost, twelve years late with his PhD on Russian folktales and increasingly haunted by a sense that he’s become a disappointment to his family. So when his wife, Kate, accepts a visiting professorship at a prestigious college in the faraway forests of Vermont, he decides that this will be the year to finally move forward with his life. But Miles is a man of many enthusiasms, one who possesses, in Kate’s words, a great capacity 'to fall in with anyone, anywhere.' And no sooner does he arrive than he finds himself entangled with a cast of characters as colorful as those of any of his folktales, from a ghostly tree surgeon to a scythe-mad biochemist, from a Shakespearean temptress to a photographer of snowflakes obsessed with chronicling, on thousands of index cards, the world’s delusions in an Inventory of Wrong Ideas. The new friends, the enchanted woods, the histories: sure, no PhD, but all good fun. Until Miles stumbles upon a bizarre—perhaps ridiculous—local legend, which, he soon suspects, might not be just a legend after all." -- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9798217197453
  • Physical Description: xii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Random House, [2026].
Subject:
Married men > Fiction.
Identity (Psychology) > Fiction.
Friendship > Fiction.
Families > Fiction.
Legends > Fiction.
Folklore > Fiction.
Interpersonal relations > Fiction.
Vermont > Fiction.
Genre:
Psychological fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Novels.

Available copies

  • 4 of 69 copies available at NC Cardinal.
  • 0 of 3 copies available at Iredell County Public Library. (Show)

Holds

  • 164 current holds with 69 total copies.
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Bladen Main Branch FIC MAS (Text) 30441101003895 Adult Fiction Available -
Farmville Public Library F MAS (Text) 23900000105766 Adult New Fiction Available -
Public Library of Johnston County and Smithfield FIC Mason (Text) 38950611565880 Adult New Fiction Available -
Stoneville Library Fic (Text) 31554012078498 Adult New Fiction Available -

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