Hunts in dreams

Tom Drury returns to the Midwest to spend a life changing autumn weekend in the company of a family whose memebers all want something without knowing how to get it: for Charles (aka Tony) it's an heirloom shotgun: for his wife, Joan, the imaginative life she once knew: for their young son, Micah, a sense of the limits of his world (in search of which he prowls the empty streets at night), and for Joan's daughter, Lyris, a stable base from which to begin to grow up.

A delightful novel from a modern master.