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Author: David Vann

2014 Longlist

The year is 1985, and twenty-two-year-old Galen lives with his emotionally dependent mother in a secluded old house surrounded by a walnut orchard in a suburb of Sacramento. He doesn’t know who his father is, his abusive grandfather is dead, and his grandmother, losing her memory, has been shipped off to a nursing home. Galen and his mother survive on the family’s trust fund – old money that his aunt, Helen, and seventeen-year-old cousin, Jennifer, are determined to get their hands on.

Galen, a New Age believer who considers himself an old soul, yearns for transformation: to free himself from the corporeal, to be as weightless as air, to walk on water. But he’s powerless to stop the manic binges that overtake him, leading him to fixate on forbidden desires. A prisoner of his body, he is obsessed with thoughts of the boldly flirtatious Jennifer and dreams of shedding himself of the clinging mother whose fears and needs weigh him down.

When the family takes a trip to an old cabin in the Sierras, near South Lake Tahoe, tensions crescendo. Caught in a compromising position, Galen will discover the shocking truth of just how far he will go to attain the transcendence he craves.

An exhilarating portrayal of a legacy of violence and madness, Dirt is an entirely feverish read.

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About the Author

David Vann is an internationally bestselling author whose work has been translated into eighteen languages. He is the winner of fourteen prizes, including France’s Prix Médicis Etranger, Spain’s Premi Llibreter, the Grace Paley Prize, a California Book Award, the AWP Nonfiction Prize, and France’s L’Express readers’ prize. His books include Legend of a Suicide, Caribou Island, A Mile Down, and Last Day on Earth. A Guggenheim fellow and former Stegner fellow and National Endowment for the Arts fellow, he is a professor at the University of Warwick in England. He has written for The Atlantic, Esquire, Outside, Men’s Health, Men’s Journal, McSweeney’s, the Sunday Times, the Observer, and many other publications, and he has appeared in documentaries for the BBC, NOVA, National Geographic, and CNN.

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David Vann

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US

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Germany, Universitäts-und Landesbibliothek Bonn

Publisher

Harper Collins USA

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