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Roy is still young when his father, a failed dentist and hapless fisherman, puts a .44 magnum to his head and commits suicide on the deck of his beloved boat. Throughout his life, Roy returns to that moment, gripped by its memory and the shadow it casts over his small-town boyhood, describing with poignant, mercurial wit his parents' woeful marriage and inevitable divorce, their kindnesses and weaknesses, the absurd and comic turning-points of his past. Finally, in Legend of a Suicide, Roy lays his father's ghost to rest. But not before he exacts a gruelling, exhilarating revenge. Revolving around a fatally misconceived adventure deep in the wilderness of Alaska, this is a remarkably tender story of survival and disillusioned love.

Autobiographical fiction, American. --- Autobiographical fiction, American. --- Alaska --- Alaska.

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Autobiographical fiction, American. --- Environmentalists --- Fishing villages --- College teachers --- Drug addicts

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A new novel with a dark political twist from & one of America's greats.& * 'Man in the Dark 'is Paul Auster's brilliant, devastating novel about the many realities we inhabit as wars flame all around us. Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident in his daughter's house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to come, he lies in bed and tells himself stories, struggling to push back thoughts about things he would prefer to forget& his wife's recent death and the horrific murder of his granddaughter's boyfriend, Titus. The retired book critic imagines a parallel world in which America is not at war with Iraq but with itself. In this other America the twin towers did not fall and the 2000 election results led to secession, as state after state pulled away from the union and a bloody civil war ensued. As the night progresses, Brill's story grows increasingly intense, and what he is so desperately trying to avoid insists on being told. Joined in the early hours by his granddaughter, he gradually opens up to her and recounts the story of his marriage. After she falls asleep, he at last finds the courage to revisit the trauma of Titus's death. Passionate and shocking, 'Man in the Dark 'is a novel of our moment, a book that forces us to confront the blackness of night even as it celebrates the existence of ordinary joys in a world capable of the most grotesque violence. *'Time Out '(Chicago)

Autobiographical fiction, American. --- Alternative histories (Fiction), American. --- Imaginary wars and battles

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Autobiographical fiction, American --- Novelists, American --- Novelists, American --- History and criticism. --- Biography. --- Wolfe, Thomas,

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Autobiographical fiction, American --- History and criticism. --- Wolfe, Thomas, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- North Carolina --- In literature.