Goat Mountain

Goat Mountain

David Vann

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Penguin Random House UK
Año de edición:
2014
ISBN:
9780099558750
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A shocking suspenseful and daring new novel from one of the greatest American writers at work today whose previous books include Caribou Island Dirt and Legend of a Suicide.In David Vann’s searing novel Goat Mountain an eleven-year-old boy is eager to make his first kill at his family’s annual deer hunt. But all is not as it should be. 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.Set over the course of one hot and hellish weekend Goat Mountain is the story of a family struggling to contend with a terrible crime and its repercussions. 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.

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