Goat Mountain - Hardcover

Vann, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 006212109X ISBN 13: 9780062121097

Publisher: Harper, 2013

Synopsis

The prizewinning author of Dirt, Caribou Island, and Legend of a Suicide returns with a searing, morally complex novel about families, violence, regret, and shattered faith.In the fall of 1978, on a 640-acre family ranch on Goat Mountain in Northern California, an eleven-year-old boy joins his grandfather, his father, and his father's best friend on the family's annual deer hunt.Every fall they return to this dry, yellowed landscape dotted with oak, buckbrush, and the occasional stand of pine trees. Goat Mountain is what this family owns and where they belong. It is where their history is kept, where their memories and stories are shared. And for the first time, the boy's story will become part of their narrative, if he can find a buck. Itching to shoot, he is ready. When the men arrive at the gate to their land, the father discovers a poacher and sights him through the scope of his gun. He offers his son a look--a simple act that will explode in tragedy, transforming these men and this family, forcing them to question themselves and everything they thought they knew.David Vann creates a haunting and provocative novel, in prose devastating and beautiful in its precision, 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.

About this title

Product Description:

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.

Review:

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

"Vann has crafted a gripping masterpiece"--"Anchorage Daily News"

"[M]asterful plotting."--"San Francisco Chronicle"

[M]asterful plotting. --"San Francisco Chronicle""

You ve been waiting a long time for a novel that ll capture your attention like this does, which makes "Goat Mountain" the book to hunt for. --"The Clermont Sun""

Vann has crafted a gripping masterpiece --"Anchorage Daily News""

Shocking. . . . The author s descriptions of the northern California landscape--the chaparral, woods, and mountains-are also masterly. . . . This beautifully realized novel is recommended for fans of literary fiction but is not for the faint of heart. --"Library Journal "(starred review)"

Vann s third novel is his most visceral yet: a grinding examination of killing, God and theunnamable forces that create a dynasty of violence. . . . This book is as all of Vann s fiction: provocative and unforgiving. --"Kirkus Reviews""

Readers will devour Vann s masterful plotting. --"San Francisco Chronicle""

Meet David Vann, one the most talented writers in the American West. "Goat Mountain," with all its responsibility and recriminations, is the man at his absolute finest. --Craig Johnson, author of the Walt Longmire Mysteries"

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 006212109X
• ISBN 13: 9780062121097
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256