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Caribou Island

David Vann

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English
Viking
03 February 2011
A great American novel from the new Cormac McCarthy

On a small island in a glacier-fed lake on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, a marriage is unravelling.

Gary, driven by thirty years of diverted plans, and Irene, haunted by a tragedy in her past, are trying to rebuild their life together. Following the outline of Gary's old dream, they're hauling logs out to Caribou Island in good weather and in terrible storms, in sickness and in health, to patch together the kind of cabin that drew them to Alaska in the first place.

Across the water on the mainland, Irene and Gary's grown daughter, Rhoda is starting her own life. She fantasizes about the perfect wedding day, whilst her betrothed, Jim the dentist, wonders about the possibility of an altogether different future.

From the author of the massively-acclaimed Legend of a Suicide, comes a devastating novel about a marriage, a couple blighted by past shadows and the weight of expectation, of themselves and of each other. Brilliantly drawn and fiercely honest in its depiction of love and disappointment, David Vann's first novel confirms him as one of America's most dazzling writers of fiction.
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Imprint:   Viking
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 35mm
Weight:   500g
ISBN:   9780670918447
ISBN 10:   067091844X
Pages:   304
Publication Date:  
Recommended Age:   From 0 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

David Vann was born on Adak Island, Alaska, and spent his childhood in Ketchikan. His first work of fiction, Legend of a Suicide, was originally published in 2008. It won seven literary awards and was selected for twenty-five 'Books of the Year' lists including the New York Times.

Reviews for Caribou Island

Caribou Island is a scant 300 pages, and written in prose as pellucid as the rivers he used to fish as a boy. But it says so much: about men and women, about marriage, about the desperate gap between who we want to be and who we are * Observer * Beautifully written and bitterly funny * Financial Times * A writer to read and reread * Economist * A novel of fine artistry and stark emotional truth - full of our darkest currents and faintest sounds * The Times * The prose here frequently achieves a quite astonishing beauty * Daily Telegraph * Beautiful, richly atmospheric . . . deserves to consolidate Vann's position among America's literary high flyers * Evening Standard * Wields an unforgiving, elemental power that is breathtaking to read * Independent on Sunday * An extravagantly gifted and moving writer * Sunday Times * Gets to places other novels can't touch * New York Times *


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