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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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Expect to have to stop and think now and then as answers may be hard to find, but the questions are everywhere. Read it and be prepared to expand your mind. -- The Daily Post (New Zealand)

Vann's beautiful, spare portrait of a marriage's end casts a singular spell. --People

Greatness has arrived: Caribou Island is a powerful first novel of love, lust, and regret set on an island near Soldotna, a fishing town on Alaska s Kenai Peninsula.... Vann slowly and quietly builds the drama toward an emotional gut-punch of an ending think Cormac McCarthy on ice. --Outside Magazine

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Published 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 New York Times, Atlantic, Esquire, Outside, Sunset, Men's Journal, McSweeney's, and many other publications, and he has been a Guggenheim, Stegner, and NEA fellow.

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