01320cam a2200277 4500 339255514 TxAuBib 20100707120000.0 060217s2006||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2006-40787 9780871139436 087113943X (OCoLC)65302167 TxAuBib Drury, Tom. The Driftless Area / Tom Drury. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006. 215 p. ; 22 cm. Amazon.com Word Count - 43836. Blaš 24-year-old Pierre Hunter is the unlikely hero of Drury's fourth novel, set in the isolated region of the Midwest that gives the book its title. Newly orphaned and bartending in a small town, Pierre is just coasting through life until a near-fatal ice-skating accident introduces him to beautiful Stella Rosmarin, a mysterious girl who lives alone in an abandoned house. That too-lucky-to-be-chance rescue is the first of a string of strange incidents that fill Pierre's life as he begins an affair with Stella. 20061221. Young men Fiction. Middle West Fiction. Bildungsromans. ALEML