Legend of a suicide

✍ Vann, David 📂 Fiction 🌐 English ⚖ 192 KB

✍ Vann, David 📂 Fiction 📅 2008 🏛 HarperCollins Publishers 🌐 English ⚖ 184 KB

Winner of the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction - 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

A Legend of Good Men: A Selection from "Legend of a Suicide"

✍ David Vann 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🏛 HarperCollins 🌐 English ⚖ 13 KB

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.

Rhoda: A Selection from "Legend of a Suicide"

✍ David Vann 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🏛 HarperCollins 🌐 English ⚖ 13 KB

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.

Ketchikan: A Selection from "Legend of a Suicide"

✍ David Vann 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🏛 HarperCollins 🌐 English ⚖ 18 KB

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.

Ichthyology: A Selection from "Legend of a Suicide"

✍ David Vann 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🏛 HarperCollins 🌐 English ⚖ 13 KB

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.