{"title":"Sea Stories","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"legend-of-a-suicide-paperback","title":"Legend of a Suicide - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Vann\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The reportorial relentlessness of [David] Vann's imagination often makes his fiction seem less written than chiseled. A small, lovely book has been written out of his large and evident pain.\"--\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In \u003cem\u003eLegend of a Suicide\u003c\/em\u003e, his heartbreaking semi-autobiographical debut story-collection, David Vann relates the story of a young man trying to come to terms with the guilt and pain of his father's suicide. The wild outback of the author's native Alaska acts as the ideal backdrop for this collage of six stories--a novella and five shorts--and mirrors the author's own psychological wilderness. 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Here, everyday people who thought the values of the South would sustain them in the North find \"that the cohesion born and nurtured in the south would be but memory in less than two generations.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree years after the publication of his much-heralded, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Known World\u003c\/em\u003e, Edward P. Jones returned with an elegiac, luminous masterpiece, \u003cem\u003eAll Aunt Hagar's Children\u003c\/em\u003e. In these fourteen sweeping and sublime stories, Jones resurrects the minor characters in his first award-winning story collection, \u003cem\u003eLost in the City\u003c\/em\u003e. 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