{"product_id":"country-people-daniel-mason-9798217199037","title":"Country People (Daniel Mason)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGOOD MORNING AMERICA\u003c\/i\u003e BOOK CLUB PICK   \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER   A year in the life of a family as they strike out into the unknown (aka Vermont) a  witty and gorgeous  (\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e) novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Mason, the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eNorth Woods\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e Charming . . . a prescription for summer amusement that takes immediate effect . . . There s so much fine, freewheeling observation and pillowy erudition here, it s tempting just to sink in.  \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 faraway forests of Vermont, he decides that this will be the year to finally move forward with his life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut Miles is a man of many enthusiasms, one 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 colorful as those of any of his folktales, from a ghostly tree surgeon to a scythe-mad biochemist, from a Shakespearean temptress to a photographer of snowflakes obsessed with chronicling, on thousands of index cards, the world s delusions in an Inventory of Wrong Ideas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe new friends, the enchanted woods, the histories: sure, no PhD, but all good fun. Until Miles stumbles upon a bizarre perhaps ridiculous local legend, which, he soon suspects, might not be just a legend after all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eDaniel Mason\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Piano Tuner, The Winter Soldier,  A Registry of My Passage upon the Earth \u003c\/i\u003ea finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and \u003ci\u003eNorth Woods, \u003c\/i\u003ea \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWashington Post \u003c\/i\u003eTop Ten Book of 2023 and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His work has been translated into twenty-eight languages, adapted for opera and the stage, and awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is an associate professor in the Stanford University department of psychiatry.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Englisch, 320 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65813896298845,"sku":"K010759433","price":15.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/1075943300001A.jpg?v=1788543676","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/country-people-daniel-mason-9798217199037","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}