Sukkwan Island: A Novella from Legend of a Suicide

by David Vann

Overview

In semiautobiographical stories set largely in David Vann's native Alaska, Legend of a Suicide follows Roy Fenn from his birth on an island at the edge of the Bering Sea to his return thirty years later to confront the turbulent emotions and complex legacy of his father's suicide.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062002112
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	03/16/2010
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	100
File size:	266 KB

About the Author

David Vann is a professor at the University of San Francisco. He is a contributor to Esquire, The Atlantic, Men's Journal, National Geographic Adventure, The Sunday Times (London), and Outside, and the author of the bestselling memoir A Mile Down: The True Story of a Disastrous Career at Sea and Last Day on Earth: A Portrait of the NIU School Shooter, Steve Kazmierczak, winner of the AWP Nonfiction Prize. He is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and Wallace Stegner Fellowship.