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Vann, David (2011) Caribou island. London : Penguin. ISBN 9780670918447
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Abstract
On a small island in a glacier-fed lake on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, a marriage is unravelling.
Gary, driven by thirty years of diverted plans, and Irene, haunted by a tragedy in her past, are trying to rebuild their life together. Following the outline of Gary's old dream, they're hauling logs out to Caribou Island in good weather and in terrible storms, in sickness and in health, to patch together the kind of cabin that drew them to Alaska in the first place.
Across the water on the mainland, Irene and Gary's grown daughter, Rhoda is starting her own life. She fantasizes about the perfect wedding day, whilst her betrothed, Jim the dentist, wonders about the possibility of an altogether different future.
From the author of the massively-acclaimed Legend of a Suicide, comes a devastating novel about a marriage, a couple blighted by past shadows and the weight of expectation, of themselves and of each other. Brilliantly drawn and fiercely honest in its depiction of love and disappointment, David Vann's first novel confirms him as one of America's most dazzling writers of fiction.
| Item Type: | Book | ||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies | ||||
| Publisher: | Penguin | ||||
| Place of Publication: | London | ||||
| ISBN: | 9780670918447 | ||||
| Official Date: | 2011 | ||||
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| Number of Pages: | 293 | ||||
| Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published |
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