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Informationen zum Autor David Vann was born in the Aleutian Islands and spent his childhood in Ketchikan, Alaska. His first book of fiction, the international bestseller Legend of a Suicide , has now been translated into seventeen languages and has won several prizes, including the Prix Medicis Etranger in France. His novel Caribou Island is an international bestseller. He is also the author of two bestselling non-fiction books, and has written for Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, the Sunday Times, Guardian, Sunday Telegraph, Financial Times and other magazines and newspapers. A current Guggenheim fellow and former Wallace Stegner fellow, he is currently a professor at the University of San Francisco. Klappentext Paperback edition of the latest novel from the acclaimed American author of "Legend Of A Suicide! Caribou Island! A Mile Down" and "Last Day On Earth". Follows the life of a 22 year old New Age believer who lives with his mother! and survives on money his family want to get their hands on. 'Brilliantly chilling.' "Evening Standard" Zusammenfassung Twenty-two-year-old Galen is a New Age believer on a warpath towards transcendence. He lives with his emotionally dependent mother in a secluded house, surviving on old family money that his Aunt Helen and cousin Jennifer are determined to get their hands on.
