A lyrical and moving new novel from the author of Legend of a Suicide
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 written for Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, the Sunday Times, Guardian, Sunday Telegraph, Financial Times and other magazines and newspapers.
A triumph
*Daily Mail*
His prose is as clear, fresh and invigorating as a starry winter
night on an Aleutian mountainside, and his intriguing scenarios
make his books easy to devour in a few urgent sittings
*The Times*
A stirring tale that isn’t as simple as it first appears.
*Esquire*
A blue-collar parable … [The character] looks back on her life as a
child looks into a tank, hoping to make sense of the world inside –
a theme that Vann develops beautifully, creating a mysterious realm
of the wintry American city’
*Guardian*
Vann spins a powerful tale of guilt and resentment, steeped in the
atmosphere of a bleak winter city
*Mail on Sunday*
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