Downloadable audio file. Duration: 15:18:48. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Read by Lloyd James.
Summary:
Driftless is an unforgettable story of contemporary life in rural America. Words, Wisconsin, home to a few hundred people yet absent from state maps, comes richly to life by way of an extraordinary cast of characters. Among them, a middle-aged couple guards the family farm from the medacious schemes of their milk cooperative; a lifelong invalid finds herself crippled by her resentment of and her affectin for her sister; a wmoan of conflicting impulses and pastor of the local Friends Church stumbles upon an enlightenment she never expected; a cantankerous retiree discovers a cougar living in his haymow, haunting him like a childhood memory; and a former drifter forever alters the ties that bind a community together. At once intimate and funny, wise and generous, Driftless makes the triumphant return of a significant American writer.
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