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Fri 08 Aug 2010Voyages deep into a dark landscape
His childhood in the epic terrain of Alaska, culminating in the suicide of his father, haunts the pages of David Vann’s first book of fiction, a work that has gone through its own complex journey
‘ALL OF our family photographs from my childhood were with something dead,” says David Vann. It seems that’s the kind of family album you wind up with when you grow up learning how to hunt and fish in Alaska – before he was 10 years old, Vann could shoot a deer from 50ft away, while, at almost 50in, the first king salmon he caught was taller than he was himself.
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