Caribou Island: A Novel - Brossura

Vann, David

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ISBN 10: 0061875732 ISBN 13: 9780061875731

Casa editrice: Harper Perennial, 2012

Riassunto

“Dazzling.... Vann knows the darkness but he writes from the compassionate light of art.  This is an essential book.”  —Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

“Exceptional....An unflinching portrait of bad faith and bad dreams.” —Ron Rash, author of Burning Bright

Set against the backdrop of Alaska’s unforgiving wilderness, Caribou Island is David Vann’s dark and captivating tale of a marriage pulled apart by rage and regret.  With this eagerly anticipated debut novel, a masterful follow-up to his internationally bestselling short fiction anthology, Legend of a Suicide, Vann takes up the mantle of Louise Erdrich, Marilyn Robinson, and Rick Moody, delivering a powerfully wrought, enthrallingly emotional narrative of struggle and isolation.  

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“Caribou Island gets to places other novels can’t touch. . . . Though it wears the clothes of realism―the beautiful exactness of the language, the unerring eye for detail―it takes us someplace darker, older, more powerful than the daylit world.” (Kevin Canty, New York Times Book Review)

“Vann’s beautiful, spare portrait of a marriage’s end casts a singular spell.” (People)

“Caribou Island builds to an horrific climax and stands as an engrossing and disturbing work of art.” (Alan Cheuse, NPR)

“Legend earned him the acclaim of being one of the best writers of his generation. His first novel is a worthy successor. . . . Caribou Island gives us a climax as haunting and realized as any in recent fiction.” (Wayne Harrison, San Francisco Chronicle)

“Moving, powerful . . . Vann’s people are hurtling irretrievably toward a dark outcome, and while putting the book down might save you from it, you can’t stop reading, just as you can’t unlearn its truths.” (Caitlin Roper, Los Angeles Times)

“Vann forces us to watch, to pay attention. He refuses to provide his characters―or us―with an easy, happy resolution. Instead, he gives us something much more valuable: an unflinching portrait of what can happen to lives when hopes and ambitions wander off, get lost, and surrender to the merciless cold.” (Kevin Grauke, Philadelphia Inquirer)

“Both [Caribou Island and Legend of a Suicide] are intense tragedies set against an unforgiving landscape. Both are delivered in clear, lyric prose. . . . Vann isn’t delivering happy endings, but he is delivering life in crystalline, unforgettable prose.” (Robin Vidimos, Denver Post)

“Vann is a poet of the animal swings between men and women struggling for the upper hand.” (Karen R. Long, Cleveland Plain Dealer)

“Compelling. As the plot moves toward a gruesome finale, the reader is submerged in ‘slow waves of pressure, water compacting but no edge to it.’” (New Yorker)

“[Vann] has come fully into his own voice, from the striking opening scene to the fateful final sentence.... An oddly exhilarating horror story in which human demons spring from the smoke of their own disappointment and regret. Caribou Island earns Vann a seat beside the masters. A+” (Sheerly Avni, San Francisco Magazine)

L'autore:

Published in twenty languages, David Vann's internationally bestselling books have won fifteen prizes, including best foreign novel in France and Spain, and have appeared on seventy-five Best Books of the Year lists in a dozen countries. He's written for the New York Times, Atlantic, Esquire, Outside, Sunset, Men's Journal, McSweeney's, and many other publications, and he has been a Guggenheim, Stegner, and NEA fellow.

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• Editore: Harper Perennial
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0061875732
• ISBN 13: 9780061875731
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320