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A Mile Down: The True Story of a Disastrous Career at Sea by David Vann
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Work so that you can keep working. It seemed a proposition that could easily end in suicide. I wanted to escape this. I wanted to free myself from the working world and have time to write. And I wanted adventure. Grendel could never free me, but this boat could. David Vann has loved boats all his life. ...Show more
Aquarium by David Vann
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
"I was going to be an ichthyologist when I grew up. I was going to live in Australia or Indonesia or Belize or the Red Sea and spend most of my day submerged in that same warm water. A fishtank stretching thousands of miles. The problem with the aquarium was that we couldn't join them." Twelve-year-old ...Show more
Bright Air Black by David Vann
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
It is 13th century B.C. and aboard the ship Argo, Medea, Jason and the Argonauts make their return journey across the Black Sea from Persia's Colchis, in possession of the Golden Fleece. David Vann, in brilliant poetic prose, gives us a nuanced and electric portrait of one of Greek mythology's most fasc ...Show more
Caribou Island by David Vann
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 C ...Show more
Dirt by David Vann
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The year is 1985 and 22-year-old Galen lives with his emotionally dependent mother in a secluded old house with a walnut orchard in a suburb of Sacramento. He doesn't know who his father is, his abusive grandfather is dead, and his grandmother, losing her memory, has been shipped off to a nursing home. ...Show more
Goat Mountain by David Vann
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Three generations of men hunt for deer on Goat Mountain. One hot autumn day, grandfather, son and grandson discover a poacher on their land. The eleven-year-old studies the poacher through the scope of his father's rifle - and pulls the trigger. Goat Mountain is an intensely powerful novel about how the ...Show more
Halibut on the Moon by David Vann
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
In his riveting new novel, internationally bestselling New York Times Notable author and Prix Medicis etranger winner David Vann reimagines his father's final days. Middle-aged and deeply depressed, Jim arrives in California from Alaska and surrenders himself to the care of his brother Gary, who intends ...Show more
Legend of a Suicide by David Vann
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 poign ...Show more
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