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Twenty-two-year-old Galen lives with his emotionally dependent mother in a secluded house outside Sacramento, surviving on the family's trust fund--money that his aunt, Helen, and seventeen-year-old cousin, Jennifer, are determined to get their hands on. A New Age believer who considers himself an old soul, Galen yearns for transformation but is powerless to stop the manic binges that overtake him. He dreams of shedding his clinging mother and is obsessed with thoughts of the boldly flirtatious Jennifer. But when the family takes a trip to a cabin in the Sierras, Galen discovers just how far he will go to attain the transcendence he craves.
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Review:
"Brave and brilliant. . . . "Dirt" is showing us something unexpected, and unexpectedly stunning . . . Vann's details here, as always, are pitch-perfect."--"San Francisco Chronicle"
"Haunting."--"Financial Times"
Searing. . . . Vann has an extravagantly literary sensibility, and his novel is full of echoes: One thinks of the stately inevitability of classical tragedy, of Chekhov s lost souls, of the hallucinatory quality of Faulkner s rural fantasia, and of Stephen King s depictions of an unraveling mind. --"Washington Post Book World""
There s a lot of humor here, of a very dark vein. And Vann, a Guggenheim fellow, excels at sly truths --"Boston Globe""
Brilliant narrative. . . . This is a novel of violence, destruction and ruin. There is no salvation. And yet Mr. Vann s soaring writing carries it forward-a reminder of the beauty that can grace even the beastliest things. --"The Economist""
His language is sharply funny, even as his characters enact a tragedy of Greek proportions. --"The New Yorker""
The book is wonderfully twisted, but a sinister humor keeps things from getting too bleak. What begins as a literary family drama turns slowly into a heady horror story, part Stephen King and part Immanuel Kant. --"The Daily Beast""
Brave and brilliant. . . . "Dirt" is showing us something unexpected, and unexpectedly stunning . . . Vann s details here, as always, are pitch-perfect. --"San Francisco Chronicle""
Haunting. --"Financial Times""
Vann has a remarkable gift for capturing the harsh realities of a family held together by hate and violence. Riveting and impossible to put down. --"Library Journal" (starred review)"
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"Haunting."--"Financial Times"
Searing. . . . Vann has an extravagantly literary sensibility, and his novel is full of echoes: One thinks of the stately inevitability of classical tragedy, of Chekhov s lost souls, of the hallucinatory quality of Faulkner s rural fantasia, and of Stephen King s depictions of an unraveling mind. --"Washington Post Book World""
There s a lot of humor here, of a very dark vein. And Vann, a Guggenheim fellow, excels at sly truths --"Boston Globe""
Brilliant narrative. . . . This is a novel of violence, destruction and ruin. There is no salvation. And yet Mr. Vann s soaring writing carries it forward-a reminder of the beauty that can grace even the beastliest things. --"The Economist""
His language is sharply funny, even as his characters enact a tragedy of Greek proportions. --"The New Yorker""
The book is wonderfully twisted, but a sinister humor keeps things from getting too bleak. What begins as a literary family drama turns slowly into a heady horror story, part Stephen King and part Immanuel Kant. --"The Daily Beast""
Brave and brilliant. . . . "Dirt" is showing us something unexpected, and unexpectedly stunning . . . Vann s details here, as always, are pitch-perfect. --"San Francisco Chronicle""
Haunting. --"Financial Times""
Vann has a remarkable gift for capturing the harsh realities of a family held together by hate and violence. Riveting and impossible to put down. --"Library Journal" (starred review)"
A major new novel from one of the most exciting and acclaimed American writers of today.
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- Publishertext publishing
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0434021970
- ISBN 13 9780434021970
- BindingPaperback
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