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33 produkter
Caribou Island
A Novel
Av David Vann
Häftad, 2012
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295 kr
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Legend of a Suicide
Stories
Av David Vann
E-bok, 2010
79 kr
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“The reportorial relentlessness of [David] Vann’s imagination often makes his fiction seem less written than chiseled. A small, lovely book has been written out of his large and evident pain.”— New York Times Book Review In Legend of a Suicide , his heartbreaking semi-autobiographical debut …
Higher Blue
A Short Story from Legend of a Suicide
Av David Vann
E-bok, 2010
11 kr
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In semiautobiographical stories set largely in David Vann''s native Alaska, Legend of a Suicide follows Roy Fenn from his birth on an island at the edge of the Bering Sea to his return thirty years later to confront the turbulent emotions and complex legacy of his father''s suicide.
Ichthyology
A Short Story from Legend of a Suicide
Av David Vann
E-bok, 2010
11 kr
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In semiautobiographical stories set largely in David Vann''s native Alaska, Legend of a Suicide follows Roy Fenn from his birth on an island at the edge of the Bering Sea to his return thirty years later to confront the turbulent emotions and complex legacy of his father''s suicide.
Ketchikan
A Short Story from Legend of a Suicide
Av David Vann
E-bok, 2010
11 kr
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In semiautobiographical stories set largely in David Vann''s native Alaska, Legend of a Suicide follows Roy Fenn from his birth on an island at the edge of the Bering Sea to his return thirty years later to confront the turbulent emotions and complex legacy of his father''s suicide.
Legend of Good Men
A Short Story from Legend of a Suicide
Av David Vann
E-bok, 2010
11 kr
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In semiautobiographical stories set largely in David Vann''s native Alaska, Legend of a Suicide follows Roy Fenn from his birth on an island at the edge of the Bering Sea to his return thirty years later to confront the turbulent emotions and complex legacy of his father''s suicide.
Rhoda
A Short Story from Legend of a Suicide
Av David Vann
E-bok, 2010
11 kr
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In semiautobiographical stories set largely in David Vann''s native Alaska, Legend of a Suicide follows Roy Fenn from his birth on an island at the edge of the Bering Sea to his return thirty years later to confront the turbulent emotions and complex legacy of his father''s suicide.
Sukkwan Island
A Novella from Legend of a Suicide
Av David Vann
E-bok, 2010
11 kr
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In semiautobiographical stories set largely in David Vann''s native Alaska, Legend of a Suicide follows Roy Fenn from his birth on an island at the edge of the Bering Sea to his return thirty years later to confront the turbulent emotions and complex legacy of his father''s suicide.
Caribou Island
A Novel
Av David Vann
E-bok, 2011
78 kr
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"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 …
Dirt
A Novel
Av David Vann
E-bok, 2012
91 kr
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The year is 1985, and twenty-two-year-old Galen lives with his emotionally dependent mother in a secluded old house surrounded by a walnut orchard in a suburb of Sacramento. He doesn''t know who his father is, his abusive grandfather is dead, and his grandmother, losing her memory, has been shipped …
Goat Mountain
A Novel
Av David Vann
E-bok, 2013
108 kr
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In David Vann’s searing novel Goat Mountain , an 11-year-old boy at his family’s annual deer hunt is eager to make his first kill. His father discovers a poacher on the land, a 640-acre ranch in Northern California, and shows him to the boy through the scope of his rifle. With this simple gesture, …
Bright Air Black
Av David Vann
Häftad, 2017
209 kr
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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, …
Legend of a Suicide
Av David Vann
Häftad, 2009
210 kr
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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 …
Legend of a Suicide
Av David Vann
E-bok, 2009
102 kr
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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 …
Caribou Island
Av David Vann
E-bok, 2011
102 kr
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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 …
Caribou Island
Av David Vann
Häftad, 2011
203 kr
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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 …
Last Day on Earth
A Portrait of the NIU School Shooter
Av David Vann
E-bok, 2011
356 kr
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On Valentine's Day 2008, Steve Kazmierczak killed five and wounded eighteen at Northern Illinois University, then killed himself. But he was an A student, a Deans' Award winner. How could this happen?CNN could not get the story. The Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, and all others came up empty …
Goat Mountain
Av David Vann
E-bok, 2013
102 kr
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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 David Vann’s searing novel Goat Mountain, an eleven-year-old boy is eager to make his first kill at his family’s annual …
Dirt
Av David Vann
E-bok, 2012
102 kr
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Twenty-two-year-old Galen is a New Age believer on a warpath towards transcendence. He lives with his emotionally dependent mother in a secluded house, surviving on old family money that his Aunt Helen and cousin Jennifer are determined to get their hands on. Galen doesn’t know who his father is, …
Mile Down
The True Story of a Disastrous Career at Sea
Av David Vann
E-bok, 2015
147 kr
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David Vann has loved boats all his life. So when his academic career seems to be stuck in the doldrums, he leaps at the opportunity to start an educational charter business, teaching creative writing workshops aboard a sailboat. But a trip to Turkey seems him dreaming bigger - and before he knows …
Aquarium
Av David Vann
E-bok, 2015
102 kr
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'Startlingly brilliant' Spectator'A triumph' Daily Mail'One of America's most powerful writers' Times Literary Supplement Twelve-year-old Caitlin lives alone with her mother - a docker at the local container port - in subsidised housing next to an airport in Seattle. Each day, while she waits to be …
Bright Air Black
Av David Vann
E-bok, 2017
102 kr
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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, …
Mile Down
The True Story of a Disastrous Career at Sea
Av David Vann
Häftad, 2005
302 kr
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If you've ever owned a sailboat or had a friend who did, you know how it begins: with a dream. You dream about the ship, and gradually the dream consumes you. Practical considerations lose all meaning ... until, inevitably, the dream morphs into a nightmare. David Vann is familiar with that …
From Before Memory
Av David Vann
Häftad, 2027
276 kr
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America in the near future is the same, but worse. There's no national government anymore. Only local authorities endure, and they barely function. The real glue holding what's left of society together is death. In this America, everyone who dies is celebrated in a lengthy funeral rite by their …
Legenda unei sinucideri
Av David Vann
E-bok, 2016
45 kr
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Prix Médicis Étranger, Franța, 2010 Premi Llibreter, Spania, 2011 California Book Award, 2008 Grace Paley Price, 2007 Dacă ideea de „eliberare prin scris“ are în ea o sămânță de adevăr, povestirile cvasiautobiografice din acest volum reprezintă cea mai bună exemplificare. Obsedat de imaginea unui …
