Driftless

David Rhodes

2008 • 431 pages

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Average rating3.3

The few hundred souls who inhabit Words, Wisconsin, are an extraordinary cast of characters. The middle-aged couple who zealously guards their farm from a scheming milk cooperative. The lifelong invalid, crippled by conflicting emotions about her sister. A cantankerous retiree, haunted by childhood memories after discovering a cougar in his haymow. The former drifter who forever alters the ties that bind a community. In his first novel in 30 years, David Rhodes offers a vivid and unforgettable look at life in small-town America..Note: Due to its structure this title may exhibit slow pagination in Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) on desktop computers and handheld devices.

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Karen

I wasn't wowed, but I enjoyed some of the characters in this tale of a rural town enough to keep reading. I felt sceptical about how things were tending to work out “well” for people. Spinsters were finding male companionship, farmers in trouble with their cooperatives were finding anonymous benefactors who paid for legal representation, grumpy old skinflints were becoming kind, generous and emotionally insightful, and struggling artists were finding greater confidence in their artistic vision. I'm not saying this stuff can't happen and books shouldn't be written about it, just that I feel suspicious when it all happens in the same book.

October 23, 2015