{"product_id":"country-people","title":"Country People","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA year in the life of a family as they strike out into the unknown (aka Vermont), leaving all the comforts of home behind—a rollicking, lyrical novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Mason, the bestselling author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNorth Woods\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand one of America’s greatest living writers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo 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 the year to finally move forward with his life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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'. Soon he finds himself entangled with a cast of characters as colorful as those of any of his folktales - from a ghostly tree surgeon, to a scythe-mad biochemist, a Shakespearean temptress, and a photographer of snowflakes - until at last he stumbles upon a bizarre local legend, which, he begins to suspect, might not be a legend at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJoyous, absurd, and life-affirming, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCountry People\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e🍃 'THE BOOK OF THE SUMMER' Mick Herron 🍃\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'LYRICAL and JOYFUL' Sarah Jessica Parker\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Told with WARMTH and WIT, Mason's prose shimmers in this immersive ode to stories, to the land, and its people' Lucy Steeds, author of The Artist\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'This is, simply put, a JOYFUL book - and the deeper you dig, the more joyful it becomes'\u003cbr\u003eGuardian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A book to make the world feel a little LIGHTER, a little warmer' Ron Charles\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Daniel Mason","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62826626351263,"sku":null,"price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0394\/7236\/5727\/files\/91AJgU8W5cL._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1783564905","url":"https:\/\/lanebook.com.au\/products\/country-people","provider":"The Lane Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}