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David Vann

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in Adak, Alaska, The United States

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Literature & Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs

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Cormac McCarthy, Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson, Elizabeth Bishop, T ...more

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Published in 19 languages, David Vann’s internationally-bestselling books have won 15 prizes, including best foreign novel in France and Spain and, most recently, the $50,000 St. Francis College Literary Prize 2013, and appeared on 70 Best Books of the Year lists in a dozen countries. He has written for the Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Outside, Men’s Health, Men’s Journal, The Sunday Times, The Observer, The Guardian, The Sunday Telegraph, The Financial Times, Elle UK, Esquire UK, Esquire Russia, National Geographic Adventure, Writer’s Digest, McSweeney’s, and other magazines and newspapers. A former Guggenheim fellow, National Endowment for the Arts fellow, Wallace Stegner fellow, and John L’Heureux fellow, he is currently a Professor at the ...more

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6 favorite books for The Week

I picked 6 favorites for The Week:

http://theweek.com/article/index/2307...

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Average rating: 3.61 · 22,400 ratings · 3,628 reviews · 28 distinct works • Similar authors

	Aquarium 3.75 avg rating — 5,041 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Legend of a Suicide 3.72 avg rating — 4,004 ratings — published 2008 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Caribou Island 3.48 avg rating — 3,624 ratings — published 2010 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sukkwan Island by David Vann (Goodreads Author), Laura Derajinski (Translator) 3.79 avg rating — 3,278 ratings — published 2008 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dirt 3.19 avg rating — 1,876 ratings — published 2012 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Goat Mountain 3.32 avg rating — 1,763 ratings — published 2013 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bright Air Black 3.62 avg rating — 686 ratings — published 2017 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Halibut on the Moon 3.61 avg rating — 643 ratings — published 2019 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Komodo by David Vann (Goodreads Author), Laura Derajinski (Translator) 3.60 avg rating — 514 ratings — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Last Day on Earth: A Portrait of the NIU School Shooter (Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction (Hardcover)) 3.48 avg rating — 353 ratings — published 2011 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Anything is possible with a parent. Parents are gods. They make us and they destroy us. They warp the world and remake it in their own shape, and that's the world we know forever after. It's the only world. We can't see what it might have looked like otherwise.”
― David Vann, Aquarium

tags: parents-and-children

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“Each thing that happens to us, each and every thing, it leaves some dent, and that dent will always be there. Each of us is a walking wreck.”
― David Vann, Aquarium

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“Even now, I still believe metamorphosis is the greatest beauty.”
― David Vann, Aquarium

tags: beauty, metamorphosis

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Polls

What shall we read as a group in February? Please pick one then join us to read the winner next month.

The Circle by Dave Eggers

31 votes, 31.0%

The Son by Philipp Meyer

21 votes, 21.0%

Room by Emma Donoghue

21 votes, 21.0%

The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson

18 votes, 18.0%

Goat Mountain by David Vann

5 votes, 5.0%

The Crooked Maid by Dan Vyleta

4 votes, 4.0%

100 total votes

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