Goat Mountain

In David Vann's searing novel Goat Mountain , an 11-year-old boy at his family's annual deer hunt is eager to make his first kill. His father discovers a poacher on the land, a 640-acre ranch in Northern California, and shows him to the boy through the scope of his rifle. With this simple gesture, tragedy erupts, shattering lives irrevocably. In prose devastating and beautiful in its precision, David Vann creates a haunting and provocative novel that explores our most primal urges and beliefs, the bonds of blood and religion that define and secure us, and the consequences of our actions--what we owe for what we've done. David Vann is the award-winning author of Legend of a Suicide , Caribou Island , A Mile Down , and Last Day on Earth .

About the author

Published in twenty languages, David Vann's internationally bestselling books have won fifteen prizes, including best foreign novel in France and Spain, and have appeared on seventy-five Best Books of the Year lists in a dozen countries. He's written for the New York Times, Atlantic, Esquire, Outside, Sunset, Men's Journal, McSweeney's, and many other publications, and he has been a Guggenheim, Stegner, and NEA fellow.

Report

"[Goat Mountain] may just may be his finest, most contemplative work to date." Booklist

Product details

• Authors: David Vann
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.10.2014
• EAN: 9780062121103
• ISBN: 978-0-06-212110-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 205 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Harper Perennial
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Family Life / General, FICTION: General, FICTION: Science Fiction / General, FICTION: Coming of Age, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Asian / Japanese