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Language: en
Pages: 184
Pages: 184
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
"In "Ichthyology," a young boy watches his father spiral from divorce to suicide. The story is told obliquely, often through the boy's observations of his tropi
Language: en
Pages: 276
Pages: 276
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-03-16 - Publisher: Harper Collins
“The reportorial relentlessness of [David] Vann’s imagination often makes his fiction seem less written than chiseled. A small, lovely book has been written
Language: en
Pages: 231
Pages: 231
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-10-29 - Publisher: Penguin UK
Set mostly in the wilds of Alaska, the stories featured in this book take on the shifting legend of a lost father. It features the story 'Ichthyology', where a
Language: en
Pages: 308
Pages: 308
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-01-18 - Publisher: Harper Collins
“Dazzling…. Vann knows the darkness but he writes from the compassionate light of art. This is an essential book.” —Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-w
Language: en
Pages: 215
Pages: 215
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-03-03 - Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
From the award-winning author of Legend of a Suicide: “A kind of modern fairy tale . . . Vann’s novels are striking, uncompromising portraits of American li