{"product_id":"goat-mountain-a-novel-isbn-9780062121097","title":"Goat Mountain: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn David Vann’s searing novel \u003cem\u003eGoat Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e, an 11-year-old boy at his family’s annual deer hunt is eager to make his first kill. His father discovers a poacher on the land, a 640-acre ranch in Northern California, and shows him to the boy through the scope of his rifle. With this simple gesture, tragedy erupts, shattering lives irrevocably.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn prose devastating and beautiful in its precision, David Vann creates a haunting and provocative novel that explores our most primal urges and beliefs, the bonds of blood and religion that define and secure us, and the consequences of our actions—what we owe for what we’ve done.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eDavid Vann is the award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eLegend of a Suicide\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCaribou Island\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eA Mile Down\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eLast Day on Earth\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eThe prizewinning author of \u003cem\u003eDirt\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCaribou Island\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eLegend of a Suicide\u003c\/em\u003e returns with a searing, morally complex novel about families, violence, regret, and shattered faith.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the fall of 1978, on a 640-acre family ranch on Goat Mountain in Northern California, an eleven-year-old boy joins his grandfather, his father, and his father’s best friend on the family’s annual deer hunt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery fall they return to this dry, yellowed landscape dotted with oak, buckbrush, and the occasional stand of pine trees. Goat Mountain is what this family owns and where they belong. It is where their history is kept, where their memories and stories are shared. And for the first time, the boy’s story will become part of their narrative, if he can find a buck. Itching to shoot, he is ready. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the men arrive at the gate to their land, the father discovers a poacher and sights him through the scope of his gun. He offers his son a look—a simple act that will explode in tragedy, transforming these men and this family, forcing them to question themselves and everything they thought they knew.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Vann creates a haunting and provocative novel, in prose devastating and beautiful in its precision, that explores our most primal urges and beliefs, the bonds of blood and religion that define and secure us, and the consequences of our actions—what we owe for what we’ve done.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Readers will devour Vann’s masterful plotting.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Meet David Vann, one the most talented writers in the American West.  \u003ci\u003eGoat Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e, with all its responsibility and recriminations, is the man at his absolute finest.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCraig Johnson, author of the Walt Longmire Mysteries\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[\u003ci\u003eGoat Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e] may just may be his finest, most contemplative work to date.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Vann’s third novel is his most visceral yet: a grinding examination of killing, God and the unnamable forces that create a dynasty of violence. . . . This book is as all of Vann’s fiction: provocative and unforgiving.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The Story has the power of a bullet fired from a gun.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[A] deep meditation on death, religion and legacy.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan Jose Mercury News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Vann has crafted a gripping masterpiece” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnchorage Daily News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“No one writing today has transformed the events of his own life into thrilling fiction more memorably than David Vann in \u003ci\u003eLegend of a Suicide\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCaribou Island\u003c\/i\u003e. Now in \u003ci\u003eGoat Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e he has done it again, with even greater force and artistry, giving us a story of family bonds, betrayal, fate. This book is written on the edge, a story of legacies, cruelty, the mysteries of DNA and blood, rewarding the reader sentence by sentence and scene by scene right to the astonishing and terrifying ending.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobert Morgan, author of Gap Creek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This book is written on the edge, a story of legacies, cruelty, the mysteries of DNA and blood, rewarding the reader sentence by sentence and scene by scene right to the astonishing and terrifying ending.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobert Morgan, author of Gap Creek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“David Vann is at once the most timely and timeless of writers . . . \u003ci\u003eGoat Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e is a ravishing example of his mastery. . . . This book will touch you to the depths of our shared, flawed humanity.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobert Olen Butler, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“You’ve been waiting a long time for a novel that’ll capture your attention like this does, which makes \u003ci\u003eGoat Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e the book to hunt for.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Clermont Sun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[M]asterful plotting.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Beast\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Shocking. . . . The author’s descriptions of the northern California landscape--the chaparral, woods, and mountains-are also masterly. . . . This beautifully realized novel is recommended for fans of literary fiction but is not for the faint of heart.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“There’s a lot of humor here, of a very dark vein. And Vann, a Guggenheim fellow, excels at sly truths.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44888686526693,"sku":"NP9780062121097","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780062121097.jpg?v=1730229618","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/goat-mountain-a-novel-isbn-9780062121097","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}