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...A year ago, Vann R. Newkirk II, staff writer at The Atlantic, set out to tell the story of Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans 15 years ago....
...Bright Air Black, by David Vann, William Heinemann, RRP£18.99, 272 pages Rebecca Abrams’ ‘The Jewish Journey: 4000 Years in 22 Objects’ is published in October by Ashmolean Books Illustration by David...
...A Mile Down, by David Vann, William Heinemann, RRP£18.99/Da Capo, RRP$14.95 On holiday in Turkey, Vann comes across the steel hull of a 90ft boat and, fulfilling a dream, he decides to rebuild it and sail...
...Vann writes with deft control and a gift for prose propelled as effortlessly as a school of fish. Aquarium, by David Vann, William Heinemann, RRP£18.99 / Atlantic Monthly Press, RRP$24, 272 pages...
...David Vann is author of ‘Goat Mountain’ (William Heinemann)...
...Goat Mountain, by David Vann, William Heinemann, RRP£16.99/Harper $25.99, 256 pages In a chapter of his memoir This Boy’s Life (1989), the American short story writer Tobias Wolff details his childhood...
...Nearby, around Vann Molyvann’s Independence Monument, grand mansions of government ministers can be seen....
...Dirt, by David Vann, Harper, RRP$25.99/William Heinemann, RRP£12.99, 272 pages The greatest movies were set in the American west, in the badlands, in Monument Valley, where John Ford roughnecks drank cowboy...
...Dirt, by David Vann, William Heinemann, RRP£12.99, 272 pages Set in 1985, in a small patch of wild America, Vann’s novel follows the character of Galen, a skinny, adolescent shaman, who lives with his much-loved...
...Combining the wistfulness of Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones with the formal daring of David Vann’s Legend of a Suicide, it’s hard to imagine a better debut this year....
...The boundaries are set by Alex Vann’s mandolin, spiky and high on the fretboard, and Jon Hunt’s guitar, essentially a rhythmic bottom end....
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