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Beschreibung
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 deer hunt. But all is not as it should be. 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 tragedy erupts shattering lives irrevocably.

Set over the course of one hot and hellish weekend Goat Mountain is the story of a family struggling to contend with a terrible crime and its repercussions. David Vann creates a haunting and provocative novel that explores our most primal urges and beliefs the bonds of blood and religion that define and secure us and the consequences of our actions - what we owe for what we've done.
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 deer hunt. But all is not as it should be. 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 tragedy erupts shattering lives irrevocably.

Set over the course of one hot and hellish weekend Goat Mountain is the story of a family struggling to contend with a terrible crime and its repercussions. David Vann creates a haunting and provocative novel that explores our most primal urges and beliefs the bonds of blood and religion that define and secure us and the consequences of our actions - what we owe for what we've done.
Über den Autor
David Vann was born in the Aleutian Islands and spent his childhood in Ketchikan, Alaska. He is the author of the international bestseller Legend of a Suicide - which has been translated into eighteen languages and won several prizes including the Prix Medicis Etranger - Caribou Island, Dirt, Goat Mountain and Aquarium. He is also the author of two bestselling non-fiction books, and has written for Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, the Sunday Times, Guardian, Sunday Telegraph, Financial Times and other magazines and newspapers.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 242 S.
ISBN-13: 9780099558750
ISBN-10: 0099558750
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Vann, David
Hersteller: Windmill Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 198 x 129 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: David Vann
Erscheinungsdatum: 30.10.2014
Gewicht: 0,309 kg
Artikel-ID: 134473091