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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.
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“A poker-faced look at American folkways in a world that is precarious and perverse…There’s an awful lot to like here: the dialogue, the sly humor, the feather-light touch, the clean drive of the prose.”
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“Brilliant, wonderfully funny…This is indeed deadpan humor, and Tom Drury is its master.”
— Annie Dillard, New York Times bestselling author -
“Drury’s prose is gorgeously descriptive.”
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“Miraculous…reads like life itself.”
— Men’s Journal -
“A screamingly funny book.”
— Boston Globe -
“The End of Vandalism is a remarkably funny book without being in the least frivolous.”
— Los Angeles Times -
“[Drury’s] sense of place and his eye for the particular in the mundane are extraordinary. This is a quiet book that grows in emotional resonance.”
— Publishers Weekly (starred review) -
“Drury strikes gold…This startling, affecting, and funny debut…contributes to the American literary tradition of arch renditions of midwestern rural life.”
— Booklist (starred review) -
“Affectionately chronicles the mundane but elevates it to a richly comic plane.”
— Library Journal
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A New York Magazine Best Books of the Year selection
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A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
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A GQ Magazine Pick of the Fifty Best Books of the Last Fifty Years
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About the Authors
Tom Drury is the author of several novels, including The End of Vandalism, Hunts in Dreams, The Driftless Area, and The Black Brook. His fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s, and the Mississippi Review, and he has been named one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists.
About Lloyd James
Lloyd James (a.k.a. Sean Pratt) has been a working professional actor in theater, film, television, and voice-overs for more than thirty years. He has narrated over one thousand audiobooks and won numerous Earphones Awards and nominations for the Audie Award and the Voice Arts Award. He holds a BFA degree in acting from Santa Fe University, New Mexico.