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<p><P>Gary and Irene's marriage is unraveling. Soon they are hauling logs out to Caribou Island to build a cabin, and with each trip their desperation escalates&#151;the punishing desolation of the prehistoric wilderness threatening to push them to the edge.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>People haunted by their own failures and lost dreams drive Vann's earnest but uneven first novel, which opens with Irene, an ailing middle-aged Alaskan woman, telling her grown daughter, Rhoda, about coming home and finding her mother "hanging from the rafters" one day when she was 10 years old. Irene also tells Rhoda that she believes her husband, Gary, wants to leave her. Gary, "a champion of regret," wanted to be an academic, but ekes out a living fishing and building boats while planning a self-imposed exile with Irene on an island in Alaska's Skilak Lake, where he's building a crude log cabin. Rhoda envisions marital bliss with her boyfriend, Jim, a philandering, selfish dentist. Their internal monologues rage with ideas and desires that read like authorial conceits, not the thoughts of real people. The only true character is Alaska itself, and Vann, author of the story collection Legend of

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Author

Vann, David

Publisher

Harper Collins

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780061875724

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Romance

Rating

3.42 / 5 (2,158 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14