{"product_id":"legend-of-a-suicide-9780141043784","title":"Legend of a Suicide","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoy is still young when his father, a failed dentist and hapless fisherman, puts a .44 magnum to his head and commits suicide on the deck of his beloved boat. Throughout his life, Roy returns to that moment, gripped by its memory and the shadow it casts over his small-town boyhood, describing with poignant, mercurial wit his parents'' woeful marriage and inevitable divorce, their kindnesses and weaknesses, the absurd and comic turning-points of his past. Finally, in \u003ci\u003eLegend of a Suicide,\u003c\/i\u003e Roy lays his father''s ghost to rest. But not before he exacts a gruelling, exhilarating revenge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRevolving around a fatally misconceived adventure deep in the wilderness of Alaska, this is a remarkably tender story of survival and disillusioned love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn extraordinary, ground-breaking piece of fiction ... Nothing quite like this book has been written before * Alex Linklater, Observer *\u003cbr\u003eA richly gifted newcomer * Sunday Times Books for 2009 *\u003cbr\u003eVann uses startling powers of observation to create strong characters, tense scenes and genuine surprises * Publishers’ Weekly *\u003cbr\u003eOh my god, \u003ci\u003eLegend of a Suicide \u003c\/i\u003ejust bowled me over completely. It is such a tender, heartbreaking, breathtaking, horrifying and insanely compelling read that when I finished it I went straight back to the beginning and round again. I implore anyone with functioning eyes to read this book * Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine *\u003cbr\u003eSo hard to put down that I am thinking of suing David Vann for several hours of lost sleep * Lionel Shriver *\u003cbr\u003eThis book squeezes more life out of the first hundred pages than most books could manage in a thousand, which is pretty impressive, considering it's a book about death * Ross Raisin, author of God's Own Country *\u003cbr\u003eIn his portrayal of a young son's love for his lost father David Vann has created a stunning work of fiction: surprising, beautiful and intensely moving * Nadeem Aslam, author of Maps for Lost Lovers *\u003cbr\u003eOne of the most gripping debuts I've ever read * Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan *\u003cbr\u003eImpossible to put down and equally impossible to forget * San Francisco Chronicle *\u003cbr\u003eAn American classic ... harrowing but beautifully wrought ... prose as clear and bracing as a mountain stream * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003eOne jaw-droppingly powerful, courageous and original fiction debut...As a 10th work of fiction this would be impressive; as a debut, it is remarkable * Sunday Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eHands down the best fictional debut we have read this year * Dazed \u0026amp; Confused *\u003cbr\u003eFor the imagery alone and for the sentences, the book would be a treasure, but the story it tells - the story of the suicide of the author's father - has an immediacy and sharpness made all the more special by the tone of distance in the narrative and the beauty of the writing * Colm Toibin, Observer books of the year *\u003cbr\u003eDavid Vann's Legend of a Suicide is brave, fantastically well written, and completely defies categorisation * Julie Myerson, Daily Telegraph books of the year *\u003cbr\u003eFrom the shores of Vann's Alaska one can see the Russia of Turgenev's \u003ci\u003eFathers and Sons\u003c\/i\u003e ... 'A father, after all,' Vann writes, 'is a lot for a thing to be.' A son is also a lot for a thing to be; so is an artist. With \u003ci\u003eLegend of a Suicide\u003c\/i\u003e David Vann proves himself a fine example of both * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003eFrom the shores of Vann's Alaska one can see the Russia of Turgenev's \u003ci\u003eFathers and Sons\u003c\/i\u003e ... 'A father, after all,' Vann writes, 'is a lot for a thing to be.' A son is also a lot for a thing to be; so is an artist. With \u003ci\u003eLegend of a Suicide\u003c\/i\u003e David Vann proves himself a fine example of both * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003eImpossible to put down and equally impossible to forget * San Francisco Chronicle *","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51017572417879,"sku":"9780141043784","price":15.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780141043784.jpg?v=1750773990","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/legend-of-a-suicide-9780141043784","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}