Country people : a novel / Daniel Mason.
"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].
- Copyright: ©2026
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Harmony Branch Library | F MASON (Text) | 33114027689280 | Adult New Fiction | Checked out | 08/15/2026 |
| Statesville Main Library | F MASON (Text) | 33114027689272 | Adult New Fiction | Checked out | 08/13/2026 |
| Troutman Branch Library | F MASON (Text) | 33114027689249 | Adult New Fiction | Checked out | 08/17/2026 |
| Albemarle Main Library | FIC Mason (Text) | STAN2040702 | Adult New Fiction | On order | - |
| Black Mountain Library | F MAS (Text) | 0020514206125 | Adult New Fiction | Checked out | 08/18/2026 |
| Bladen Main Branch | FIC MAS (Text) | 30441101003895 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Braswell Memorial Main Library | FIC Mas (Text) | 37807000070113 | Adult New Fiction | Checked out | 09/15/2026 |
| Camden County Library | ON ORDER (Text) | CMD9798217197453 | On Order | In process | - |
| Canton Library | F Mason (Text) | 33115007718649 | Adult New Fiction | Checked out | 08/12/2026 |
| Cliffdale Library | CMB2016930 (Text) | CMB2016930 | Technical Services | In process | - |
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