Legend of a Suicide: Stories

€œThe 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 Review

 In 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 Alaska acts as the ideal backdrop for this collage of six stories€"a novella and five shorts€"and mirrors the author€s own psychological wilderness. From €œan important new voice in American literature€ (Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain) comes an unforgettable exploration of the tragic gaps between one boy and his father.