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Legend of a suicide

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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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Language
English
Pages
172

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Cover of: Legend of a Suicide
Legend of a Suicide
2010, HarperCollins
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Legend of a suicide
2009, Penguin
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Legend of a Suicide
2009, Penguin Group UK
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Legend of a suicide
2008, University of Massachusetts Press
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Edition Notes

Thanks to Robert Burdock for his photo of the cover - http://www.flickr.com/photos/robaround/3484325276/in/pool-openlibrary

Published in
Amherst
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.6
Library of Congress
PS3622.A667 L45 2008, PS3622.A667L45 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
172

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL18736492M
Internet Archive
legendofsuicidea00davi
ISBN 13
9781558496729
LCCN
2008035381
OCLC/WorldCat
229308865
Library Thing
6928140
Goodreads
5086417

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