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Legend of a Suicide is a very difficult book for the very best reasons: it is written with great honesty and journeys unflinchingly into darkness. It is a reckoning. Partway through "Sukkwan Island," the central novella in David Vann 's collection Legend of a Suicide (U of Massachusetts Press, 2008), I decided I had to put the book down.
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David Vann. 3.73. 3,693 ratings448 reviews. 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 tropical fish, yet also reveals his father's last desperate moves, including quitting dentistry for commercial fishing in the Bering Sea.
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The stories in Legend of a Suicide approach a private mythos, revisiting, reinvestigating, and reinventing one family's broken past. They also transport us to wild, uncharted places on the Alaskan coast and in the American soul. Throughout, David Vann is a generous, sure-handed guide in some very dangerous territory.
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David Vann was born in the Aleutian Islands and spent his childhood in Ketchikan, Alaska. He is the author of the international bestseller Legend of a Suicide - which has been translated into eighteen languages and won several prizes including the Prix Medicis Etranger - Caribou Island, Dirt, Goat Mountain and Aquarium.He is also the author of two bestselling non-fiction books, and has.
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David Vann. HarperCollins, Mar 16, 2010 - Fiction - 272 pages. In semiautobiographical stories set largely in David Vann's native Alaska, Legend of a Suicide follows Roy Fenn from his birth on an island at the edge of the Bering Sea to his return thirty years later to confront the turbulent emotions and complex legacy of his father's suicide.
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David Vann's reworking of his dad's suicide is an extraordinary, ground-breaking piece of fiction, says Alexander Linklater. Alexander Linklater. Sat 17 Oct 2009 19.24 EDT. B efore reading David.
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By David Vann. Nov. 28, 2008. Ichthyology. My mother gave birth on Adak Island, a small hunk of rock and snow far out on the Aleutian chain, at the edge of the Bering Sea. My father was serving.
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David Vann's story-plus-novella collection "Legend of a Suicide" is the New Yorker Book Club's April selection. He is also the author of the best-selling memoir "A Mile Down: The True Story of a.
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Legend of a Suicide. David Vann. Univ of Massachusetts Press, 2008 - Fiction - 172 pages. "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 tropical fish, yet also reveals his father's last desperate moves, including quitting dentistry for.
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David Vann discusses his novel Legend of a Suicide with James Naughtie and this month's group of readers. Legend of a Suicide is an intimate and profound account of a family tragedy, told in six.
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New York Times Book Review. In 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.
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Books. Legend of a Suicide. David Vann. Penguin Adult, Oct 29, 2009 - Fiction - 229 pages. 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.
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David Vann, whose new book,. Vann worked at Legend of a Suicide for about 10 years: from the age of 19, until he was 29. The book then spent more than a decade in a drawer. For reasons I have.
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LEGEND OF A SUICIDE. By David Vann. 172 pp. University of Massachusetts Press. $24.95. Tom Bissell's most recent book is "The Father of All Things.".
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Legend of a Suicide: Stories. Paperback - March 16, 2010. by David Vann (Author) 4.0 218 ratings. See all formats and editions. "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."—.
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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.