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.
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 *