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Already translated in 18 languages, a Flaherty-Dunan First Novel Prize finalist, and soon to become a motion picture directed by Bill Guttentag, Caribou Island is the story of a marriage, and of a couple that must come to terms with the past. When Gary and Irene set out to build the home of their dreams on Caribou Island, a small, deserted island on Alaska’s Kenaim Peninsula, they find themselves at the complete mercy of the wind, sea and cold. Back on the terra firma, their adult daughter Rhoda is dreaming of her own perfect marriage, to her dentist boyfriend Jim. Like Legend of a Suicide, this book is also inspired by tragic events in David Vann’s personal life, the murder-suicide of his stepmother’s parents.
David Vann (Adak Island, Alaska, 1966) teaches creative writing teacher at the University of San Francisco. He transformed the childhood trauma of his father’s suicide into his first book, Legend of a Suicide, a collection of story stories, which was rejected by publishers for 12 years. So he took to the seas, became a captain and boat builder, and logged over 20,000 miles. (“The perfect life would be living on a boat and writing,” he says.) He eventually entered Legend of a Suicide for the Grace Paley prize for short fiction, and won, after which the University of Massachusetts Press published it (in only 800 copies), the New York Times reviewed it, and then Harper bought the rights. Today, his books are highly acclaimed at home and abroad, and are published throughout the world. His work has appeared in the leading US newspapers as well as The Sunday Times, The Observer and Esquire, among many other publications. Harper recently published his latest novel, Dirt.
Dirt, Harper, New York, 2012
Last Day on Earth: a Portrait of the NIU School Shooter, University of Georgia Press, Athens, 2011
Caribou Island, Harper, New York, 2011
Legend of a Suicide, University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, 2008
A Mile Down: the True Story of a Disastrous Career at Sea, Thunder's Mouth Press, New York, 2005
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