LEGEND OF A SUICIDE
de Vann, David
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- F/F
- Librería
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Commack, New York, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press. F/F. 2008. First Edition. Hardcover; First Printing. First edition, fine unread in fine protected DJ. .
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El Apr 2 2015, CloggieDownunder dijo:
“Watching the dark shadow moving before him, it seemed as this were what he had felt for a long time, that his father was something insubstantial before him and that if he were to look away for an instant or forget or not follow fast enough and will him to be there, he might vanish, as if it were only Roy’s will that kept him there”
Legend of a Suicide is the first book by prize-winning American author, David Vann. It consists of five short stories and a novella. The stories are all connected and describe the relationship of young Roy Fenn with his father Jim, a failed dentist and unsuccessful fisherman who commits suicide when Roy is thirteen. Vann writes from a position of authority, having experienced exactly that with his own father.
While this dark subject forms the centre of the tales, Vann often surrounds it with equally dark humour as he describes the (frequently absurd) incidents of their lives. All this is contained within Vann’s luminous prose: “There had been rain overnight. I remember how strong the dove grass smelled, bitter in my nostrils and throat. I looked up suddenly from the bright ground and everything pulled together, all the strands of cloud and blue air, as if there were a huge drain in the center of the sky that sucked it all up”
The short stories are narrated in the first person by Roy; the novella (Sukkwan Island) is narrated in the third person from the point of view of Roy and Jim, and describe a fateful homestead stay on a remote Alaskan island. Again, some evocative descriptive prose is used: “They watched the sun getting lower. It was so slow they couldn’t see it dropping, but they could see the light changing on the water and on the trees, the shadow behind every leaf and ripple in the sideways light making the world three-dimensional, as if they were seeing trees through a view-finder” is an example.
Vann’s portrayal of the mentally ill father, his rationalisations and choices, is very realistic. Young Roy’s thought processes have a similarly authentic feel. This is a moving, sometimes funny, sometimes shocking tale with a clever twist. An amazing debut.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Mostly Useful Fictions (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 24524
- Título
- LEGEND OF A SUICIDE
- Autor
- Vann, David
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hardcover; First Printing
- Estado del libro
- Usado - F/F
- Edición
- First Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- University of Massachusetts Press
- Lugar de publicación
- Amherst, MA
- Fecha de publicación
- 2008
- Catálogos del vendedor
- First Book;
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