Roy is still young when his father, a failed dentist and hapless fisherman, puts a .44 magnum to his head and kills himself 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 weaknesses, the absurd and comic turning-points of his past. Finally, in Legend of a Suicide, Roy lays his father''s ghost to rest. But not before he exacts a gruelling, exhilarating revenge. Revolving around a fatally misconceived adventure deep in the wilderness of Alaska, this is a remarkably tender story of loss, survival and disillusioned love.
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David Vann va néixer a l'illa Adak, Alaska, i actualment viu a Califòrnia i ensenya a la Universitat de San Francisco. Autor d'un extraordinari llibre autobiogràfic, A mile down: The true story of a disastrous career at the sea, l'èxit li arriba més tard, quan publica Legend of a suicide, un conjunt de relats que giren al voltant del suïcidi del seu pare i al cor dels quals hi ha la novel·la curta SukkwanIsland. Fenomen de vendes a França i als Estats Units, aquest debut en el camp de la narrativa ha guanyat nombrosíssims premis i ha estat celebrat tant per la crítica com pels lectors. Comparat a Cormac McCarthy, David Vann s'ha instal·lat en la primera línia dels autors nord-americans.