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Caribou Island
Caribou Island: A Novel | David Vann
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“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 Bright Set against the backdrop of Alaska’s unforgiving wilderness, Caribou Island is David Vann’s dark and captivating tale of a marriage pulled apart by rage and regret. With this eagerly anticipated debut novel, a masterful follow-up to his internationally bestselling short fiction anthology, Legend of a Suicide, Vann takes up the mantle of Louise Erdrich, Marilyn Robinson, and Rick Moody, delivering a powerfully wrought, enthrallingly emotional narrative of struggle and isolation.
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rwmg
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Mehso-so

David Vann's writes some more about the themes he explored in “Legend of A Suicide“: Alaska, dentists cheating on their partners, men wanting to live a wilderness life without the necessary practical skills, parental suicide. I like his style but I will look at some later books to see if he's got these themes out of his system yet.

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rwmg
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Sha0102
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Pickpick

A ilha Caribou/ Caribou island. I spent all my reading wanting to slap all the characters' faces cause I could see where this would end and it did. It is really an afflictive tormenting story.(Booklist) What I love the most about the book was Alaska as one character and how the story made me feel (I got really angry with them) Good book, well written. #book #bookaholic #Sha2018

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ClairesReads
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This might in fact be a bit of a masterpiece. It's a really hostile novel, set in a painfully beautiful but ultimately hostile environment. Alaska is a place of crushing solitude, peopled by ultimately miserable people who seem intent on inflicting their misery on each other. It's a novel about the weight of dreams deferred, and the ease with which we blame each other for this. In spite of this, it really is a beautifully written, stark novel.

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ClairesReads
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This book is more poetically written than I'd expected...in a good way.

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ClairesReads
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Next up...on recommendation from a friend.

Redheadrambles Oooh sounds good ! 7y
ClairesReads @Redheadrambles yes it sounds like exactly what I'm in the mood for at a moment 7y
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GoneFishing

... you can choose who you‘ll be with, but you can‘t choose who they‘ll become.

abhisynthe Haha. Although, I bet there's a whole bunch of writers who would never apologize for who they became either. 8y
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CS393
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Alaska's beauty has a brutal edge. From a distance it appears calm and pristine, but the reality can be harsh, unyielding. Chaos is part of its nature, a reflection of the chaos in the couple's marriage, their lives, while at the same time adding to their chaos. A perfect storm gaining momentum.

Full review @ www.goodreads.com/review/show/932569418

acorter Glad to find someone else on here who has read Vann! There are a few reviews for Aquarium, but that's it. Did you read Legend of a Suicide? I just finished it and it reminded me heavily of Caribou Island. 8y
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