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Désolations

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Sur les rives d'un lac glaciaire en Alaska, Irene et Gary ont construit leur vie, élevé deux enfants aujourd'hui adultes.
Mais après trente années d'une vie sans éclat, Gary est déterminé à bâtir sur un îlot désolé la cabane dont il a toujours rêvé. Irene se résout à l'accompagner dans ce projet fou en dépit des inexplicables maux de tête qui l'assaillent.
Leur fille Rhoda, tout à ses propres rêves de bonheur, devient peu à peu le témoin impuissant du face-à-face implacable de ses parents, tandis que s'annonce un hiver précoce et violent qui rendra l'îlot encore plus inaccessible.

Après Sukkwan Island, prix Médicis 2010, le second livre de David Vann est une œuvre magistrale sur l'amour et la solitude. Un roman inoubliable.

310 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 5, 2017

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David Vann

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Published in 19 languages, David Vann’s internationally-bestselling books have won 15 prizes, including best foreign novel in France and Spain and, most recently, the $50,000 St. Francis College Literary Prize 2013, and appeared on 70 Best Books of the Year lists in a dozen countries. He has written for the Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Outside, Men’s Health, Men’s Journal, The Sunday Times, The Observer, The Guardian, The Sunday Telegraph, The Financial Times, Elle UK, Esquire UK, Esquire Russia, National Geographic Adventure, Writer’s Digest, McSweeney’s, and other magazines and newspapers. A former Guggenheim fellow, National Endowment for the Arts fellow, Wallace Stegner fellow, and John L’Heureux fellow, he is currently a Professor at the University of Warwick in England and Honorary Professor at the University of Franche-Comté in France.

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