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Legend of a Suicide
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Artikel-Nr:
9780061987809
Veröffentl:
2010
Einband:
EPUB
Seiten:
272
Autor:
David Vann
eBook Typ:
EPUB
eBook Format:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
David Vann wurde 1966 auf Adak Island/Alaska geboren. Seine Romane sind vielfach preisgekrönt und erschienen bisher in 22 Ländern. Vann lebt mit seiner Frau in Kalifornien und ist derzeit Professor an der University of Warwick in England.
The reportorial relentlessness of [David] Vanns 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 fathers suicide. The wild outback of the authors native Alaska acts as the ideal backdrop for this collage of six storiesa novella and five shortsand mirrors the authors 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.
The reportorial relentlessness of [David] Vanns 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 fathers suicide. The wild outback of the authors native Alaska acts as the ideal backdrop for this collage of six storiesa novella and five shortsand mirrors the authors 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.