{"product_id":"country-people-1","title":"Country People","description":"\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 \u003ci\u003eNorth Woods\u003c\/i\u003e and one of America s greatest living writers\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.","brand":"Buchserien.de","offers":[{"title":"Neuware","offer_id":54020736680274,"sku":"9798217199037","price":18.6,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/7002\/3593\/files\/unnamed_6493902b-89e8-4070-97d9-84bd59976bb4.jpg?v=1784286036","url":"https:\/\/www.buchserien.de\/products\/country-people-1","provider":"Buchserien.de","version":"1.0","type":"link"}