‘An overlooked giant of American comic fiction’
Guardian
‘Drury gives us the wondrous and engaging stuff of real storytelling . . . a terrific book’
New York Times
When fourteen-year-old Micah Darling travels to Los Angeles to reunite with his estranged mother, he finds himself in a land of magical freedom – a world away from all he’s known in the Midwest. And back home in Grouse County, a mysterious young woman arrives on a mission that will unsettle the lives of everyone she encounters.
Returning to the beloved characters of his landmark debut, The End of Vandalism, Pacific confirms Tom Drury as a giant of American fiction.
‘A beautiful book of quiet power that deserves recognition as a contemporary classic’
McSweeneys
Guardian
‘Drury gives us the wondrous and engaging stuff of real storytelling . . . a terrific book’
New York Times
When fourteen-year-old Micah Darling travels to Los Angeles to reunite with his estranged mother, he finds himself in a land of magical freedom – a world away from all he’s known in the Midwest. And back home in Grouse County, a mysterious young woman arrives on a mission that will unsettle the lives of everyone she encounters.
Returning to the beloved characters of his landmark debut, The End of Vandalism, Pacific confirms Tom Drury as a giant of American fiction.
‘A beautiful book of quiet power that deserves recognition as a contemporary classic’
McSweeneys
Reviews
I loved this book. You will laugh a lot while reading it because I did. You will care about its characters because I did. And I'm certain you will want to read everything else Drury has ever written after closing it because that's what happened to me . . . to read Pacific is to understand how fun reading can be, and how full life truly is. It is a rare pleasure. And if that doesn't sell it to you, then let me add: Pacific is a really, really, really good book
A terrific book, and a strange one, as strange as the world and the great literature that helps us make our way through it
Reading Pacific makes me once again fall in love with Drury's words, and his perception of a world that is full of dangers and passions and mysteries and graces