Legend of a Suicide

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Legend of a Suicide
David Vann
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Legend of a Suicide

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"The reportorial relentlessness of [David] Vann's imagination often makes his fiction seem less written than chiseled. A small, lovely book has been written out of his large and evident pain."—New York Times Book ReviewIn Legend of a Suicide, his heartbreaking semi-autobiographical debut story-collection, David Vann relates the story of a young man trying to come to terms with the guilt and pain of his father's suicide. The wild outback of the author's native Alaska acts as the ideal backdrop for this collage of six stories—a novella and five shorts—and mirrors the author's own psychological wilderness. From "an important new voice in American literature" (Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain) comes an unforgettable exploration of the tragic gaps between one boy and his father.

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HarperCollins
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English

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Legend of a Suicide
2010, HarperCollins
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Legend of a suicide
2009, Penguin
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2009, Penguin Group UK
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2008, University of Massachusetts Press
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Open Library
OL24296098M
ISBN 13
9780061987809
OCLC/WorldCat
650827864
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E742D78D-FB4B-4BE5-AE66-CEAB4A99FC81

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Roy is still young when his father, a failed dentist and hapless fisherman, puts a .44 magnum to his head and commits suicide on the deck of his beloved boat. Throughout his life, Roy returns to that moment, gripped by its memory and the shadow it casts over his small-town boyhood, describing with poignant, mercurial wit his parents' woeful marriage and inevitable divorce, their kindnesses and weaknesses, the absurd and comic turning-points of his past. Finally, in Legend of a Suicide, Roy lays his father's ghost to rest. But not before he exacts a gruelling, exhilarating revenge. Revolving around a fatally misconceived adventure deep in the wilderness of Alaska, this is a remarkably tender story of survival and disillusioned love.

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December 26, 2021 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
August 4, 2013 Edited by VacuumBot Updated format 'E-book' to 'eBook'
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