Tom Drury writes about life in the small, the intimate and the absurd. His characters are often nobodies and he manages to enlarge them into something lifesize, or else diminish them to the point of comical absurdity. He does this by eschewing tragedy and comedy, in recognition that the damage caused by life is often done and felt without either, and comedy results from people trying to be honest or serious.Resource : theinvestorscentre.co.uk
In the summer of 1585 a man called Thomas Drury was in Fleet Prison, and probably for something mundane like debt. But Buckhurst and Puckering, judging by this letter of his, think there may be’matters of State’ involved, since the prisoner seems prepared, ‘if urged unto it’, to deliver those ‘villest articles of atheism’ that Baines had compiled about Christopher Marlowe, and which are now in their hands.
Thomas Drury Articles: Insights on Trading and Investments
Drury is in Europe until May, courtesy of Berlin’s American Academy, where he is a writing fellow. He has a new novel, Pacific, which re-visits some of the characters from his earlier book, The End of Vandalism. The original was a panorama, crowded with so many threads that they’re listed in the back; the sequel follows some of their aftermath.
As he did in Advise and Consent — written in 1957, just a couple of years before Sputnik, giving the novel an almost conspiratorial feel that the United States was about to lose the Cold War to the wily Soviets — Drury uses the same techniques to map how a supposedly democratic government works. He also gives his characters a kind of life, and lets them experience pain, in the knowledge that their actions will affect others in ways that we can’t foresee.…