From the award-winning author of Legend of a Suicide: "A kind of modern fairy tale . . . Vann's novels are striking, uncompromising portraits of American life" ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).David Vann's dazzling debut Legend of a Suicide was reviewed in over a 150 major global publications, won eleven prizes worldwide, was on forty "best books of the year" lists, and established its author as a literary master. Now, in crystalline, ch...

"Dazzling…. Vann knows the darkness but he writes from the compassionate light of art. This is an essential book." —Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain"Exceptional….An unflinching portrait of bad faith and bad dreams." —Ron Rash, author of Burning BrightSet against the backdrop of Alaska's unforgiving wilderness, Caribou Island is David Vann's dark and captivating tale of a marriage pulled apart...

A "sensual, brutal . . . ambitious, dazzling, disturbing, and memorable" retelling of Jason and the Argonauts seen through the eyes of Medea ( Financial Times).International bestselling and multi-prize-winning author David Vann transports readers to the Mediterranean and Black Sea, 3,250 years ago, for "[a] stunning depiction of one of mythology's most complex characters" ( The Australian).It is thirteenth century BC, and the Argo...

“The reportorial relentlessness of [David] Vann’s imagination often makes his fiction seem less written than chiseled. A small, lovely book has been written out of his large and evident pain.”—New York Times Book ReviewIn Legend of a Suicide, his heartbreaking semi-autobiographical debut story-collection, David Vann relates the story of a young man trying to come to terms with the guilt and pain of his father’s suicide. The wild outback of the author’s native Alas...

"[An] affecting novel of a man grappling with deep depression…A moving portrait of a family dealing with loss before it happens."— Kirkus ReviewsMiddle-aged and deeply depressed, Jim arrives in California from Alaska and surrenders himself to the care of his brother Gary, who intends to watch over him. Swinging unpredictably from manic highs to extreme lows, Jim wanders ghost-like through the remains of his old life, attempting to find meaning in his tatter...

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...

**A discontented great-grandmother unleashes chaos across post-apocalyptic California in this hilarious and moving adventure from the author of international bestseller Legend of a Suicide.This scorching satire on power in America is Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery meets Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster: imagine a Mad Max caravan led by a bloodthirsty Betty White!**America in the near future is the same, but worse. There’s no national or state governme...