{"product_id":"legend-of-a-suicide-9780061875847","title":"Legend of a Suicide","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The 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.\"--\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In \u003cem\u003eLegend of a Suicide\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 \"an important new voice in American literature\" (\u003cem\u003eRobert Olen Butler\u003c\/em\u003e, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003cem\u003eA Good Scent from a Strange Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e) comes an unforgettable exploration of the tragic gaps between one boy and his father.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVann, David:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003ePublished in twenty languages, David Vann's internationally bestselling books have won fifteen prizes, including best foreign novel in France and Spain, and have appeared on seventy-five Best Books of the Year lists in a dozen countries. He's written for the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAtlantic\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEsquire\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOutside\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSunset\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMen's Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMcSweeney's\u003c\/em\u003e, and many other publications, and he has been a Guggenheim, Stegner, and NEA fellow.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50523392966930,"sku":"9780061875847","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1d6837ae-9185-4e5d-a4d6-d972c74d6beb.jpg?v=1731146678","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/legend-of-a-suicide-9780061875847","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}