| International Standard Book Number |
9798217197453
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| Personal Name |
Mason, Daniel (Daniel Philippe), author.
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| Title Statement |
Country people : a novel / Daniel Mason.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Imprint |
New York : Random House, [2026]
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| Physical Description |
xii, 306 pages ; 25 cm.
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| Series Statement |
Good morning America book club.
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| Summary, Etc. |
Miles 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. But 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. The 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.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Families Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Friendship Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Identity (Psychology) Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Vermont Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Folklore Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Married men Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Legends Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Marriages Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Vermont Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Domestic fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Psychological fiction.
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| Series Added Entry-Uniform Title |
Good morning America book club.
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