The End Of Vandalism Tom Drury by Tom Drury 9780802142702, 0802142702, B008UX8Q9Q instant download after payment.

Ten years ago, Tom Drury's groundbreaking debut, The End of Vandalism, was serialized in The New Yorker, and was compared to the work of Sherwood Anderson and William Faulkner by USA Today. Now, appearing simultaneously with his first new novel in six years, Drury's debut is back in print

"Brilliant, wonderfully funny... It’s hard to think of any novel - let alone a first novel - in which you can hear the people so well. This is indeed deadpan humour, and Tom Drury is its master.”  -  Annie Dillard

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 anti–vandalism 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.

"So amiably dense with anecdote and observation, the reader is bounced along by its energy... Grouse County is unabashedly American, a setting both nostalgic and wittily contemporary... In a sense, the main character is the county itself, with its eccentricities, rituals, quarrels and comforts."  -  The Boston Sunday Globe

At turns hilarious and heartbreaking, The End Of Vandalism is a radiant novel about the beauty and ache of modern life.