Author: David Vann
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN: 9781558496729
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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"In "Ichthyology," a young boy watches his father spiral from divorce to suicide. The story is told obliquely, often through the boy's observations of his tropical fish, yet also reveals his father's last desperate moves, including quitting dentistry for commercial fishing in the Bering Sea. "Rhoda" goes back to the beginning of the father's second marriage and the boy's fascination with his stepmother, who has one partially closed eye. This eye becomes a metaphor for the adult world the boy can't yet see into, including sexuality and despair, which feel like the key initiating elements of the father's eventual suicide. "A Legend of Good Men" tells the story of the boy's life with his mother after his father's death through the series of men she dates." "In "Sukkwan Island," an extraordinary novella, the father invites the boy homesteading for a year on a remote island in the southeastern Alaskan wilderness. As the situation spins out of control, the son witnesses his father's despair and takes matters into his own hands. In "Ketchikan," the boy is now thirty years old, searching for the origin of ruin. He tracks down Gloria, the woman his father first cheated with, and is left with the sense of "a world held in place, as it turned out, by nothing at all." Set in Fairbanks, where the author's father actually killed himself, "The Higher Blue" provides an epilogue to the collection."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: David Vann
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 014193106X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 275
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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 to Caribou Island in good weather and in terrible storms, in sickness and in health, to patch together the kind of cabin that drew them to Alaska in the first place. Across the water on the mainland, Irene and Gary's grown daughter, Rhoda is starting her own life. She fantasizes about the perfect wedding day, whilst her betrothed, Jim the dentist, wonders about the possibility of an altogether different future. From the author of the massively-acclaimed Legend of a Suicide, comes a devastating novel about a marriage, a couple blighted by past shadows and the weight of expectation, of themselves and of each other. Brilliantly drawn and fiercely honest in its depiction of love and disappointment, David Vann's first novel confirms him as one of America's most dazzling writers of fiction.
Author: U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
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Category : Geodesy
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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Author: United States. Department of Commerce
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 684
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Author: U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
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Languages : en
Pages : 178
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Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Author: Marcus Baker
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Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 696
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Author: Illinois State Geological Survey
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Category : Geological surveys
Languages : en
Pages : 1682
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 1442
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Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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