DAVID RHODES

A major American writer returns after a thirty-year silence

“Rhodes is a brilliant writer.”    —Cleveland Plain-Dealer

Stunning new work                           from an acclaimed novelist  Praise for Driftless and David Rhodes: “Encompassing and incisive, comedic and profound, Driftless is a radiant novel of community and courage.” —Booklist   “There is nothing so affirming, so inspiring, as holding in your hands the black-and-white, spelled-out proof that an author who writes because he wants to write . . . has not lost one ounce of the mastery for which he was recognized in the first place.” —Poets & Writers

Click here to read an excerpt  from Driftless

Check out a new Wall Street Journal article highlighting the re-emergence of Rhodes's work

Don't miss the Poets & Writers feature "After the Flood: A Profile of David Rhodes"

“Nothing in Rhodes's vision is secondhand.” —John Gardner, On Becoming a Novelist

First published in 1975,                 a rediscovered epic novel Praise for Rock Island Line and David Rhodes: “A kind of dark but luminous Candide, Rock Island Line is beautiful and haunting in a way you have not encountered before. I read the book when it first came out over thirty years ago and it has lived in both my heart and head ever since.”  —Jonathon Carroll, author of The Ghost of Love   “A masterpiece of staggering beauty.” —Booklist