by David Vann
I love the title "Legend of a suicide", and it suits this book perfectly. I didn't really get it at first, why it was a "legend", but then came the different parts of the book, making me more and more confused, and I realized it really was a legend of sorts. I think I missed some things in the begin...
This guy is a good writer and he uses writing for one of its better purposes: to fix what cannot be fixed. He is able to convey a deep feeling of something being much more wrong than it seems until it suddenly becomes truly tragic. There are just a few minor editing problems, such as the use of the ...
Sorry I read this book. Language was disconnected and it was hard to follow the story.
The humor in the first few stories caught me off guard. The bulk of these stories evoke the Alaskan landscape, both physical and emotional. The survivalist, the disgruntled, the independent, and the unorthodox all surface in this beautiful collection.
When David Vann was 13 years old his father committed suicide. This book is Vann’s way of trying to reach out to his dead father, to bring him back to life in a way. Don’t expect a yuck-fest. The book is divided into five short stories and one much longer piece (175 pps). All are told from the view,...
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