Legend of a Suicide: Stories (P.S.)

by David Vann

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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 ReviewIn 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 novella and five shorts—and mirrors the author's own psychological wilderness. From "an important new...Read more
  • ISBN10 0061987808
  • ISBN13 9780061987809
  • Publish Date 16 March 2010 (first published 1 November 2008)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
  • Imprint Collins
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 272
  • Language English
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