Goat Mountain
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Publisher Description
Ny roman af amerikanske David Vann, forfatteren til bl.a. CARIBOU ISLAND og JORD. David Vann kommer efter planen til København 1. december 2015.
En efterårsdag i 1978 tager en 11-årig dreng med sin far, sin bedstefar og sin fars bedste ven på hjortejagt. Han har aldrig dræbt en hjort og er ivrig efter at få lov til at tage sit første bytte. Men da faderen gennem riflens sigte vil vise ham en krybskytte, der er trængt ind på familiens jagtgrund, ødelægger en forkert bevægelse det hele.
GOAT MOUNTAIN er en intens og dragende fortælling om vold, familie og religion, skrevet i David Vanns både smukke og foruroligende prosa.
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Vann (Dirt) offers a meditation on violence set during a deer hunt on a Northern California mountain in 1978. The narrator recalls in flashback a few days I want to remember in every smallest detail, when his 11-year-old self, seeking his first buck, just wanted to kill, constantly and without end. But the hunt s first victim proves to be a person, not a deer. The boy sights a poacher through his rifle scope and, purposefully but seemingly without conscious malice, shoots him dead. Through most of the narrative, the narrator, his father, grandfather, and family friend Tom quarrel about what to do with the body, for a time trussing it up like a dead deer. The men s bonds gradually collapse until, in the harrowing climax, the grandfather reaches a decision, with Old Testament finality, about how to evade the consequences of the boy s actions. The adult narrator steps out of flashback periodically to ponder the nature of killing: There was no joy as complete and immediate as killing. This flint-hard novel, in its intensity, will likely be compared to the work of Cormac McCarthy.
