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David vann first came to prominence with legend of a suicide and since then has used the events in his own life to create stark and compelling fiction. In prose devastating and beautiful in its precision, david vann explores our most primal urges, the ties that bind us, and the consequences of our actions what we owe for what weve done. Goat mountain by vann, david 20 hardcover vann, david on. Goat mountain book by david vann 6 available editions.
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His father discovers a poacher on the land, a 640acre ranch in northern california, and shows him to the boy through the scope of his rifle. Goat mountain is a dry place of live oak and buck brush and poison oak with occasional relief from stands of ponderosa pine, white pine, and sugar pine, and even a swampy bear wallow. San francisco chronicle recommended books david vann knows the dark interior of family tragedies his own life is fraught with them and he brings both witness and intense examination to stories of human savagery. Goat mountain by david vann paperback, 2014 for sale. Vanns vision of an atavistic, nihilistic world is unremittingly bleak. Goat mountain is an intensely powerful novel about how these men, and their boy, deal with the poachers death, and with his body. Goat mountain, the latest novel by david vann, the highly acclaimed author of legend of a suicide and caribou island, takes place during a familys.
Immediately spotting a poacher, the father offers the 11yearold son a closer look at the interloper through his rifle scope. Dec 23, 20 in goat mountain, vanns latest novel, this stylistic evolution reaches its primal endpoint. Jan 01, 20 goat mountain by david vann is not for the faint of heart. The story has the power of a bullet fired from a gun. Reviews of goat mountain mathieu bourgois agency published in 23 languages, david vanns internationallybestselling books have won 14 prizes, including best foreign novel in france and spain, and appeared on 83 best books of the year lists in a dozen countries. This book will touch you to the depths of our shared, flawed humanity. Alamy in their various ways, all david vann s books are autopsies. In goat mountain, vanns latest novel, this stylistic evolution reaches its primal endpoint.
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