Summary
A great American novel from the new Cormac McCarthy
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 t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780670918447 |
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| ISBN-10: | 067091844X |
| Author: | David Vann |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 3 February 2011 |
| Weight: | 500g |
| Dimensions: | 35mm x 129mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Viking |
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Critics Review
Gets to places other novels can’t touch
Gets to places other novels can’t touch * New York Times *
An extravagantly gifted and moving writer * Sunday Times *
Wields an unforgiving, elemental power that is breathtaking to read * Independent on Sunday *
Beautiful, richly atmospheric … deserves to consolidate Vann’s position among America’s literary high flyers * Evening Standard *
The prose here frequently achieves a quite astonishing beauty * Daily Telegraph *
A novel of fine artistry and stark emotional truth - full of our darkest currents and faintest sounds * The Times *
A writer to read and reread * Economist *
Beautifully written and bitterly funny * Financial Times *
Caribou Island is a scant 300 pages, and written in prose as pellucid as the rivers he used to fish as a boy. But it says so much: about men and women, about marriage, about the desperate gap between who we want to be and who we are * Observer *
David Vann
David Vann was born on Adak Island, Alaska, and spent his childhood in Ketchikan. His first work of fiction, Legend of a Suicide, was originally published in 2008. It won seven literary awards and was selected for twenty-five ‘Books of the Year’ lists including the New York Times.
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