A suicide legend

LEGEND OF A SUICIDE

【Editor's Recommendation】
⚫Based on the author's true experiences, this Grace Perey Award-winning masterpiece, which remained unpublished for twelve years, finally received recognition: In 1980, a man named James Edwin Vann committed suicide. Fifteen years later, his son David Vann wrote these stories based on his father's personal experience. Twelve years later, these previously unread stories were finally published after winning the first prize of the Grace Perey Award.
⚫A well-structured collection of short stories: consisting of five short stories and one novella, the arrangement of the six stories has its own clear logical thread and is by no means a random collection;
A surprising twist rarely seen in contemporary short stories: The entire collection revolves around the protagonist's father's death. Following the perspective of the novel's main narrator, the young Roy Finn, we have the opportunity to examine a man's life, which contains tenderness, cruelty, and surprising twists: "The son weaves a deadly web of memory and imagination, completing a disturbing revenge. This is a deeply moving and chilling literary debut."
⚫A critically acclaimed work that has won over 10 literary awards worldwide: In addition to winning the 2007 Grace Perret Short Story Award, this book has also won more than a dozen international literary awards, including the Medici Foreign Novel Prize in France, the Best Foreign Novel Award of the Catalan Booksellers Association in Spain, the California Book Award, and the Readers' Prize of Les Express in France. It has also been selected for the "Best Books of the Year" lists of more than 40 media outlets in 11 countries, including the UK's The Guardian and the Times Literary Supplement.
⚫Highly recommended by renowned authors such as Colm Tóibín, Lorrie Moore, and Robert Olen Butler: This book is a treasure simply for its imagery and sentences. (Colm Tóibín)
【Writer/Media Comments】
For its imagery and sentences alone, this book is a treasure. — Colm Tóibín This is the kind of book that opens casually and swallows you up with the rhythm and stark beauty of its sentences... To some, Vane's conception may be too ruthless, but A Suicide's Tale marks the birth of a truly great writer's debut. — The Irish Sunday Independent
(David Vann is) one of Cormac McCarthy's true successors. A writer has been born. —La Sout-Ouest, France
In the opening pages of "A Suicide Story," the author unassumingly presents readers with some wilderness survival tools—rope, screws, batteries... But by the end of the novel, the ropes become weapons that ensnare the reader, the screws dig into the reader's fingernails, and the batteries bring unspeakable pain. This is the story the author created, a sorrow that makes the reader feel as if they were there. —The New York Times
David Vann tells the story of his father's death in a remarkable and original set of novel variations that is poised to become an American classic. —The Times Literary Supplement
I have never seen a more nuanced and luminous narrative art than in Vane's novels. At least not in a long time. --Lorrie Moore David Vane is an important new voice in American literature. --Robert Olen Butler A writer worth reading and rereading. --The Economist
Wonderful... Vane's prose draws on the spirit of Cormac McCarthy and Hemingway, yet has its own flexibility. —The Times
David Vann's relentless, reportorial imagination often makes his novels seem less written than chiseled. He has crafted a small, lovely book out of his own immense and palpable pain. —The New York Times Book Review
David Vane's extraordinary and inventive fictional take on his father's death will surely become an American classic. —The Times Literary Supplement
A relentlessly heartbreakingly brilliant piece of work, on a par with Cormac McCarthy's The Road. —The Weekend Australian
David Vane is one of the best writers of his generation. —Le Figaro
Through "A Suicide Story," Fine explores the dark and lonely heart of the American soul. It is a devastating journey, difficult to read, but impossible to put down and impossible to forget. - San Francisco Chronicle
A son weaves a deadly web of memory and imagination to unleash a disturbing revenge. This is a deeply moving and chilling literary debut. - The Sunday Canberra Times

2023-10-01

人民文学出版社

99 Readers

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9787020182077