Goat Mountain
Author(s): David Vann

In David Vanns searing novel Goat Mountain, an 11-year-old boy at his familys 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.

In 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 actionswhat we owe for what weve done.

David Vann is the award-winning author of Legend of a Suicide, Caribou Island, A Mile Down, and Last Day on Earth.

Review(s):
[Goat Mountain] may just may be his finest, most contemplative work to date.
[M]asterful plotting.
Youve been waiting a long time for a novel thatll capture your attention like this does, which makes Goat Mountain the book to hunt for.
Vann has crafted a gripping masterpiece
Shocking. . . . The authors 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.
Vanns 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 Vanns fiction: provocative and unforgiving.
[A] deep meditation on death, religion and legacy.
Readers will devour Vanns masterful plotting.
Meet David Vann, one the most talented writers in the American West. Goat Mountain, with all its responsibility and recriminations, is the man at his absolute finest.
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.

ISBN:9780062121097