Country people a novel [LP]

Miles Krzelewski is a devoted husband, a doting father, and the proud owner of a truffle-hunting dog in a land with no truffles. He is also lost, 12-years too late with his PhD on Russian folktales andincreasingly haunted by a sense that he's a disappointment to his family. So when his wife, Kate, a...

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Main Author: Mason, Daniel (Daniel Philippe) (Author)
Format: Books Print Book Large Print
Language:English
Published: New York : Random House Large Print Publishing, 2026.
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Summary:Miles Krzelewski is a devoted husband, a doting father, and the proud owner of a truffle-hunting dog in a land with no truffles. He is also lost, 12-years too late with his PhD on Russian folktales andincreasingly haunted by a sense that he's a disappointment to his family. So when his wife, Kate, accepts a visiting professorship at aprestigious college in Vermont, he decides that this will be the year he finally moves forward with his life. But no sooner does he arrive in Vermont than he finds himself entangled with a cast of characters as colorful as that in any folktale and soon, he stumbles upon a bizarre local legend which, he suspects, may not be just a legend after all.
Physical Description:432 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
ISBN:9798217412334
Author Notes:Daniel Mason is the author of The Piano Tuner, The Winter Soldier, A Registry of My Passage upon the Earth-- a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize--and North Woods, a New York Times and Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2023 and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His work has been translated into twenty-eight languages, adapted for opera and the stage, and awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is an associate professor in the Stanford University department of psychiatry.