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Legend of a Suicide

Feb

22

2011

A Conversation With David Vann by Lindsey McGuirk, Village Books, Bellingham

Caribou Island, the latest from Legend of a Suicide author David Vann, is a novel of storm-beaten Alaskan landscapes and the weathered relationships of its characters. A long-married couple, Gary and Irene, build a cabin on an island in the middle of a remote Alaskan lake in an effort to rebuild their life together but …

Nov

7

2010

Legend of a Suicide by David Vann

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.—recommended by Mary Ann at Fireside Books in Palmer, …