The End of Vandalism
- Author Jesse LaVercombe, Tom Drury
- Narrator Lloyd James
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date 1 September 2013
- Run Time 10 hours and 35 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Fiction: general and literary.
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What to expect
Ten years ago, Tom Drury's groundbreaking debut, The End of Vandalism, was serialized in the New Yorker, was compared to the work of Sherwood Anderson and William Faulkner by USA Today, and was named a Best Book of the Year in multiple publications.
Welcome to Grouse County—a fictional Midwest that is at once familiar and amusingly eccentric—where a thief vacuums the church before stealing the chalice, a lonely woman paints her toenails in a drafty farmhouse, and a sleepless man watches his restless bride scatter their bills beneath the stars. At the heart of The End of Vandalism is an unforgettable love triangle set off by a crime: Sheriff Dan Norman arrests Tiny Darling for vandalizing an antivandalism dance and then marries the culprit's ex-wife Louise. So Tiny loses Louise, Louise loses her sense of self, and the three find themselves on an epic journey. At turns hilarious and heartbreaking, The End of Vandalism is a radiant novel about the beauty and ache of modern life.
Critics Review
u201cBrilliant, wonderfully funnyu2026This is indeed deadpan humor, and Tom Drury is its master.u201d
u201cDruryu2019s prose is gorgeously descriptive.u201d
u201cMiraculousu2026reads like life itself.u201d
u201cA screamingly funny book.u201d
u201cThe End of Vandalism is a remarkably funny book without being in the least frivolous.u201d
u201c[Druryu2019s] sense of place and his eye for the particular in the mundane are extraordinary. This is a quiet book that grows in emotional resonance.u201d
u201cDrury strikes goldu2026This startling, affecting, and funny debutu2026contributes to the American literary tradition of arch renditions of midwestern rural life.u201d
u201cAffectionately chronicles the mundane but elevates it to a richly comic plane.u201d
u201cA poker-faced look at American folkways in a world that is precarious and perverseu2026Thereu2019s an awful lot to like here: the dialogue, the sly humor, the feather-light touch, the clean drive of the prose.u201d
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