Legend of a suicide
Vann, David2009
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Set mostly in the wilds of Alaska, the stories featured in this book take on the shifting legend of a lost father. It features the story 'Ichthyology', where a young boy watches his father spiral from divorce to suicide. Roy is still young when his father, a failed dentist and hapless fisherman, puts a .44 magnum to his head and commits suicide 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 survival and disillusioned love.
Main title:
Legend of a suicide / David Vann.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Penguin Books, 2009.
Collation:
229 p. : maps ; 20 cm.
Notes:
"First published in United States of America by University of Massachusetts Press 2008"--T.p. verso.Formerly CIP UkOriginally published: Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008.
ISBN:
9780141043784 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.6GG
Local class:
FICFT Pbk
Language:
English
BRN:
652783
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