{"product_id":"country-people","title":"Country People","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTold with warmth and wit, Mason's prose shimmers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003ein this immersive ode to stories, to the land, and its people'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLucy Steeds, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebestselling author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Artist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA year in the life of a family as they strike out into the unknown-a rollicking, lyrical novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Mason, the bestselling author of North Woods and one of America's greatest living writers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\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 far away forests of Vermont, he decides that this will be his year to finally move forward with his life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut Miles is a man of many enthusiasms, 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 any of his folktales, from a ghostly tree surgeon to a scythe-mad biochemist, a Shakespearean temptress and a photographer of snowflakes obsessed with chronicling, on thousands of index cards, the world's delusions in a \"Inventory of Wrong Ideas.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe new friends, the enchanted woods, the histories: sure, no PhD, but all good fun. Until Miles stumbles upon a bizarre - even ridiculous - local legend, which, he soon suspects, might not be just a legend after all.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJoyous, absurd, and life-affirming, Country People 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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Daniel Mason","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48474469990643,"sku":"9781399835022","price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/country-people_1.jpg?v=1770249518","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/country-people","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}