Goat Mountain
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780434021987 (0434021989)
Publish date: October 3rd 2013
Publisher: William Heinemann
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Read by Julieanne: Every year an 11 year old boy joins his grandfather, his father and his father’s best friend on a deer hunt. The family owns a 640 hectare ranch in Northern California. This year as they begin the hunt, they spot a poacher on their land. It is here that the story unfolds after a s...
All of David Vann’s novels are dark, exploring the depths of the human experience in all its tragic glory. Goat Mountain is no different from his previous novels in that aspect, but in this newest novel, he takes the darkness one step further and approaches the realm of violence that sits just below...
This was a brutal read in ways. Dark and hopeless , but dang the prose blew me away.
This review has also been cross-posted on my blog. Images tend to disappear on GR. They are all present there. The book was released on Tuesday, September 10, 2013.Drama is a description of what is bad inside of us and the end point of that is hell, a description of a hellish landscape.This is what ...
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