Legend of a Suicide

David Vann

earliest edition we have, 2008 University of Massachusetts Press, 2008 172 pages

Roy 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 a...

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Legend of a Suicide ebook · 2010 · HarperCollins · 9780061987809
Legend of a Suicide edition · 2009 · Penguin Group UK · 9780141930886
Legend of a suicide edition · 2009 · Penguin · 229 pages · 9780141043784
Legend of a suicide edition · 2008 · University of Massachusetts Press · 172 pages · 9781558496729

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