An Hour With David Vann

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When:

Sun 15 May ’11, 1:00pm–2:00pm

Where: ASB Theatre, Aotea Centre, 50 Mayoral Drive, Auckland CBD Show map

Restrictions: All Ages

Ticket Information:

Festival Club: $16.00
Earlybird: $20.00
Standard: $25.00
Student : $12.50
Booking fees may apply

Website:

Auckland Writers and Readers Festival

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“Caribou Island gets to places other novels can’t touch... Though it wears the clothes of realism - the beautiful exactness of the language, the unerring eye for detail - it takes us someplace darker, older, more powerful than the daylit world. This Alaska with its salmon boats and trash dumps becomes a stage for ancient stories of survival and will and connection and love, and also, in the end, the failures of love." - The New York Times Book Review

"Transfixing and unflinching... full of finely realized moments... Comparison with Cormac McCarthy is fully justified." - Times Literary Supplement (UK)

David Vann’s Legend of a Suicide announced a startling new voice - an Alaskan voice, one of beauty, sorrow and subtlety. The reviews for Caribou Island have been fulsome in their praise, and he is being hailed as “a great American writer”.

David talks with Bill Manhire.