David Rhodes grew up near Des Moines and graduated from Marlboro College in Vermont. After receiving an MFA in Writing from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1971, he published three novels in rapid succession to acclaim: The Last Fair Deal Going Down, The Easter House, and Rock Island Line. Thirty years later, Milkweed reissued these and published his newest novel, Driftless . He currently lives with his wife Edna in Wisconsin, and his next book, Jewelweed will be published in May 2013.
Table of Contents
Prologue
Chapter One, Thistlewaite County, 1977
Chapter Two, Violet and Olivia, 1997
Chapter Three Cora and Graham
Chapter Four Gail
Chapter Five Grief
Chapter Six Faith Keeps No Treasure
Chapter Seven Humped Floors
Chapter Eight Hot Milk
Chapter Nine Broken Things
Chapter Ten Hiring Help
Chapter Eleven A Gray Van
Chapter Twelve Epiphany
Chapter Thirteen Straight Flush
Chapter Fourteen Fire in the Field
Chapter Fifteen Snow
Chapter Sixteen Envy
Chapter Seventeen A New Song
Chapter Eighteen Remembered Love and Anger
Chapter Nineteen Fear
Chapter Twenty Reunion
Chapter Twenty-One The Meaning of Truth
Chapter Twenty-Two Fighting Dogs
Chapter Twenty-Three The Universal Acorn
Chapter Twenty-Four Insurgency
Chapter Twenty-Five New Love
Chapter Twenty-Six Spring
Chapter Twenty-Seven The Thief
Chapter Twenty-Eight Mushrooms
Chapter Twenty-Nine Breaking In
Chapter Thirty The River
Chapter Thirty-One Family
Chapter Thirty-Two Lawyers
Chapter Thirty-Three The County Fair
Chapter Thirty-Four Meeting at Snow Corners
Chapter Thirty-Five The Look of Death
Chapter Thirty-Six Finding July
Chapter Thirty-Seven Selling Land
Chapter Thirty-Eight Inside the Church
Chapter Thirty-Nine The Funeral
Chapter Forty Driftless
