David Vann

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 fathers suicide. The wild outback of the authors native Alaska acts as the ideal backdrop for this collage of six storiesa novella and five shortsand mirrors the authors own psychological wilderness.From an important new voice in American literature (Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain) comes an unforgettable exploration of the tragic gaps between one boy and his father.

A shocking, suspenseful and daring new novel from one of the greatest american writers at work today, whose previous books include caribou island, dirt and legend of a suicide.

In Bright Air Black , 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 her home and father with Jason, the Argonauts, and the Golden Fleece. Vann's reimagining of this ancient tale offers a thrilling, realist alternative to the long held notions of Medea as monster or sorceress. We witness with dramatic urgency Medea's humanity, her Bronze Age roots and position in Greek society, her love affair with Jason, and her tragic demise.Atmospheric and spellbinding, Bright Air Black is an indispensable, fresh and provocative take on one of our earliest texts and the most intimate and corporal version of Medea's story ever told.

"Alaska, Penisola Kenai: su una piccola isola in un lago glaciale una coppia affronta la prova piu difficile. Gary, alle spalle trent''anni di piani saltati, e Irene, inseguita da un tragico passato, stanno cercando di ricostruire la loro vita insieme. Seguendo un vecchio sogno di Gary, affrontano le tempeste artiche per ricostruire la casetta di legno che li aveva portati per la prima volta in Alaska. Nel frattempo la loro figlia Rhoda cresce sulla terraferma cercando di costruire la propria vita, in attesa di un matrimonio che il suo promesso Jim cerca in tutti i modi di rinviare. Un romanzo mozzafiato su una coppia offuscata dai fantasmi del passato e dalle aspettative sul futuro, una descrizione sincera e affilata dell''amore e della disillusione che conferma il talento di uno degli scrittori piu luminosi d''America. "

"Un''isola selvaggia nel Sud dell''Alaska, isolata dal mondo e immersa in una natura incontaminata: Jim si immerge in questo scenario per passare un anno con il figlio tredicenne - Roy - in una capanna isolata dal mondo civile, e recuperare un rapporto trascurato da una vita di eccessi e delusioni (in particolare la crisi del suo matrimonio), vivendo di caccia e pesca. Il rigore della vita in condizioni estreme e l''insicurezza del padre trasformano, pero, il soggiorno in un incubo che peggiora giorno dopo giorno e che il piccolo Roy non riesce a sostenere. Fino al violento e imprevedibile epilogo, in cui il padre si trova di fronte all''assurdita di questa sua iniziativa. "

This is a lyrical and moving new novel from the author of Legend of a Suicide. Aged nine, Caitlin spends almost every afternoon at the local aquarium while her mother works overtime at her construction job. Caitlin''s whole world is her school, her mother, occasionally her mother''s boyfriends, and the fish at the aquarium. She has no friends at school, apart from Shalini, who is making a paper mache Hindu reindeer with her, and no other family. But Caitlin has made a friend at the aquarium; an old man who seems to know something about Caitlin, something she doesn''t even know about herself.

This well-crafted debut collection, five stories and a novella, from award-winning writer and memoirist Vann (A Mile Down) revolves obsessively around the suicide of an Alaskan father. Hopscotching through time, each tale examines the father's death from the perspective of his young son, Roy. The first story, Ichthyology, introduces the young protagonist and his troubled father, a tax-dodging dentist and fisherman who ends up shooting himself on the deck of his fishing boat. Rhoda finds the 12-year-old boy bonding with his new stepmother, a pretty young woman his father married before the tragedy.

Une île sauvage du Sud de l'Alaska, accessible uniquement par bateau ou par hydravion, tout en forêts humides et montagnes escarpées. C'est dans ce décor que Jim décide d'emmener son fils de treize ans pour y vivre dans une cabane isolée, une année durant. Après une succession d'échecs personnels, il voit là l'occasion de prendre un nouveau départ et de renouer avec ce garçon qu'il connaît si mal. La rigueur de cette vie et les défaillances du père ne tardent pas à transformer ce séjour en cauchemar, et la situation devient vite incontrôlable. Jusqu'au drame violent et imprévisible qui scellera leur destin. Sukkwan Island est une histoire au suspense insoutenable. Avec ce roman qui nous entraîne au coeur des ténèbres de l'âme humaine, David Vann s'installe d'emblée parmi les jeunes auteurs américains de tout premier plan.

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.

Une île sauvage du Sud de l’Alaska, accessible uniquement par bateau ou par hydravion, toute en forêts humides et montagnes escarpées. C’est dans ce décor que Jim décide d’emmener son fils de treize

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