Legend of a suicide
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Author
Publication
2008 - University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
43,000 words, Guess
Page Count
172 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivelegendofsuicidea00davi
- ISBN-139781558496729
- ISBN-101558496726
- Goodreads5086417
- LibraryThing6928140
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- Library of Congress Control Number2008035381
- OCLC Control Number229308865
- Better World Books9781558496729
- Open LibraryOL18736492M
Classifications
- DDC813/.6
- LCCPS3622.A667 L45 2008
- LCCPS3622.A667L45 2008
Description
Roy is still young when his father, a failed dentist and hapless fisherman, puts a .44 magnum to his head and commits suicide on the deck of his beloved boat. Throughout his life, Roy returns to that moment, gripped by its memory and the shadow it casts over his small-town boyhood, describing with poignant, mercurial wit his parents' woeful marriage and inevitable divorce, their kindnesses and weaknesses, the absurd and comic turning-points of his past. Finally, in Legend of a Suicide, Roy lays his father's ghost to rest. But not before he exacts a gruelling, exhilarating revenge. Revolving around a fatally misconceived adventure deep in the wilderness of Alaska, this is a remarkably tender story of survival and disillusioned love.
Description
In a series of interconnected short stories, a boy watches his father spiral from divorce to suicide, and follows his search for the origin of his father's ruin.
Subjects
Genres
- Fiction
Other Editions
- Legend of a suicide
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