Praise for Hunts in Dreams

“Drury connects the dots of American alienation and confusion into a fierce pointillist portrait . . . using language at once laconic, edgy, and musical.”

— Newsday

“Drury is a master at dialogue. . . . Almost every page of Hunts in Dreams sparkles with little pearls of the writer’s craft, whether it’s humor, pathos, or insight.”

— The Denver Post

“Tom Drury has done it again. Hunts in Dreams is guided by a wry and warm-hearted sensibility and populated with appealingly flawed characters whose quirks, desires, and self-contradictions are our own.”

— Wally Lamb

“A wonderful piece of storytelling.”

— Esquire

“A dreamlike book—not in the way dreams are but in the way that life can be.”

— Salon

“[A] highly entertaining tale of American working-class ­existentialism.”

— Booklist

“[Drury is] one of those rare writers who qualifies for the term original. . . . His deadpan, declarative style radiates both absolute authorial command and the whimsical confidence of a writer content to let his characters take the tale where they want it to go.”

— The Philadelphia Inquirer

“Drury’s gift for dead-on realism and unfussy dialogue reveals the humorous, edgy pathos of his characters and invests his story with the ambiguity of real life and the poignancy of unrealized dreams.”

— Publishers Weekly (starred review)