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Driftless

Driftless \Drift"less\, a. Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.

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driftless

a. Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.

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Driftless

Driftless a winner of the Milkweed Editions National Fiction Prize, is a novel by David Rhodes that was published in 2008. It is set in the Driftless area of southwestern Wisconsin. The novel is about the inhabitants of the unincorporated town of Words, and it is told through their eyes and via the ways they interact with and impact one another.

Usage examples of "driftless".

This country, for many miles around, was known as the driftless area, a magic little pocket that, for some reason not yet known, had been bypassed by the glaciers while they crunched far south on each side of it.