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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Caribou Island Caribou Island David Vann 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… OL15507961W
Dirt Dirt David Vann The year is 1985, and twenty-two-year-old Galen, a New Age believer, lives with his emotionally dependent mother in a suburb of Sacramento, surviving on the family trust fund--old money that his aunt… OL17642497W
Désolations Désolations David Vann Roman psychologique (intime) Sur les rives d'un lac glaciaire au coeur de la péninsule de Kenai, en Alaska, Irene et Gary ont construit leur vie, élevé deux enfants aujourd'hui adultes. Mais après t… OL24728771W
Aarde Aarde David Vann Een geïsoleerde excentrieke jonge Amerikaan van 22 jaar ondervindt de beperkingen van het leven met een onevenwichtige moeder en een demente grootmoeder, hetgeen grote impact op zijn bestaan heeft. OL26177845W
Goat Mountain Goat Mountain David Vann A grandfather, father, son, and a family friend set off on an annual trip to their hunting grounds: 640 wild, idyllic and remote acres along one side of a mountain. But all is not as it should be. Up… OL27039442W
Legend of a Suicide Legend of a Suicide David Vann Roy is still young when his father, a failed dentist and hapless fisherman, puts a .44 magnum to his head and commits suicide on the deck of his beloved boat. Throughout his life, Roy returns to that… OL8859342W