David Vann
2) Aquarium
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Twelve-year-old Caitlin's daily visits to the local aquarium after school bring her into contact with an elderly fellow aquarium lover, whom she befriends just as she discovers a shocking family secret.
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"Following the success of Aquarium which was a New York Times Editor's Choice and garnered numerous rave reviews, David Vann transports us to 13th century B.C. to give a nuanced and electric portrait of the life of one of ancient mythology's most fascinating and notorious women, Medea. In brilliant poetic prose Bright Air Black brings us aboard the ship Argo for its epic return journey across the Black Sea from Persia's Colchis--where Medea flees...
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Middle-aged and deeply depressed, Jim arrives in California from Alaska and surrenders himself to the care of his brother Gary, who intends to watch over him. Swinging unpredictably from manic highs to extreme lows, Jim wanders ghost-like through the remains of his old life, attempting to find meaning in his tattered relationships with family and friends. As sessions with his therapist become increasingly combative and his connections to others seem...
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In David Vann's searing novel Goat Mountain, an 11-year-old boy at his family's annual deer hunt is eager to make his first kill. His father discovers a poacher on the land, a 640-acre ranch in Northern California, and shows him to the boy through the scope of his rifle. With this simple gesture, tragedy erupts, shattering lives irrevocably. In prose devastating and beautiful in its precision, David Vann creates a haunting and provocative novel that...
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On Valentine's Day 2008, Steve Kazmierczak killed five and wounded eighteen at Northern Illinois University, then killed himself. But he was an A student, a Deans' Award winner. How could this happen?
CNN could not get the story. The Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, and all others came up empty because Steve's friends and professors knew very little. He had reinvented himself in his final five years. But David Vann, investigating for Esquire,...
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"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. "-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...
10) Dirt: A Novel
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The year is 1985, and twenty-two-year-old Galen lives with his emotionally dependent mother in a secluded old house surrounded by a walnut orchard in a suburb of Sacramento. He doesn't know who his father is, his abusive grandfather is dead, and his grandmother, losing her memory, has been shipped off to a nursing home. Galen and his mother survive on the family's trust fund-old money that his aunt, Helen, and seventeen-year-old cousin, Jennifer,...
15) Momentum
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Vom Ende eines Lebens
Jim ist Ende dreißig und depressiv. Aus Alaska, wo er lebt, fliegt er nach Kalifornien, an den Ort seiner Kindheit. Sein jüngerer Bruder Gary holt ihn vom Flughafen ab - er will auf Jim aufpassen und hofft, dass dieser im Kreis der Familie seine Lebensfreude zurückgewinnt. Doch während Jim wie ein Geist durch die Hinterlassenschaften seines alten Lebens wandelt, wird er von seinen Gedanken vorwärtsgetrieben, auf das Ende...