by David Vann · Random H. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099558743
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«Dirt» is the literary fiction novel by David Vann, published by Random House in paperback (272 pages, in English).
Galen, a twenty-two-year-old New Age follower, lives with his emotionally dependent mother in Sacramento thanks to a trust fund that his aunt and seventeen-year-old cousin try to take from them. A trip to a cabin near South Lake Tahoe strains the family and pushes Galen to the limit in his search for transcendence.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction interested in family dramas and characters at the edge.
David Vann is an American novelist and short story writer, and was formerly a professor of creative writing at the University of Warwick in England. Vann received a Guggenheim Fellowship and has been a National Endowment for the Arts fellow, a Wallace Stegner fellow, and a John L'Heureux fellow. His work has appeared in many magazines and newspapers. His books have been published in 23 languages and have won 14 prizes and been on 83 'best books of the year' lists. They have been selected for The New Yorker Book Club, the Times Book Club, the Samlerens Bogklub in Denmark and have been optioned for film by Inkfactory and Haut et Court. He has appeared in documentaries with the BBC, CNN, PBS, National Geographic, and E!.
