{"product_id":"country-people-by-daniel-mason-9781399835022","title":"Country People","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Told with warmth and wit, Mason's prose shimmers in this immersive ode to stories, to the land, and its people'\u003c\/strong\u003e Lucy Steeds, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Artist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'A charming, funny, exhilarating Vermont adventure'\u003c\/strong\u003e Clare Fuller, author of \u003ci\u003eSwimming Lessons\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Full of joy - and exactly the kind of reading experience we could all do with right now. The book of the summer'\u003c\/strong\u003e Mick Herron, author of \u003ci\u003eSlow Horses\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA year in the life of a family as they strike out into the unknown—a rollicking, lyrical novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Mason, the bestselling author of North Woods and one of America's greatest living writers.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMiles 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 far away forests of Vermont, he decides that this will be his year to finally move forward with his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut Miles is a man of many enthusiasms, 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 colourful as any of his folktales, from a ghostly tree surgeon to a scythe-mad biochemist, a Shakespearean temptress and a photographer of snowflakes obsessed with chronicling, on thousands of index cards, the world's delusions in an \"Inventory of Wrong Ideas.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe new friends, the enchanted woods, the histories: sure, no PhD, but all good fun. Until Miles stumbles upon a bizarre - even ridiculous - local legend, which, he soon suspects, might not be just a legend after all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJoyous, absurd, and life-affirming, \u003ci\u003eCountry People\u003c\/i\u003e is a luminous exploration of marriage and parenthood, the nature of belief and the power of stories, and the ways in which we find connection in an increasingly fragmented world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47521272332524,"sku":"9781399835022","price":31.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/acc07b9f1bc49bdf7dfd59124572e1a4.jpg?v=1776127119","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/country-people-by-daniel-mason-9781399835022","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}