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Goat mountain

In the fall of 1978, on the 640-acre family deer-hunting ranch on Goat Mountain in Northern California, an eleven-year-old boy goes hunting with three men: his father, grandfather, and a friend of his father's. Goat Mountain is a dry place of live oak and buck brush and poison oak with occasional relief from stands of ponderosa pine, white pine, and sugar pine, and even a swampy bear wallow. This is the place where all the family's memories and stories and history are held. When the men arrive at the gate to their land, the father spots a poacher hunting illegally on his property. When he lets his eleven-year-old son take a look through the scope of his rifle, the boy pulls the trigger. The men struggle over what to do with the dead man. Though the struggle begins between the father and grandfather, it ultimately becomes a struggle between the grandfather and the boy. By the end, nothing is as it seems.

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  • "A grandfather, father, son, and a family friend set off on an annual trip to their hunting grounds: 640 wild, idyllic and remote acres along one side of a mountain. But all is not as it should be. Upon arrival, they spot a poacher lurking by their cabin. 'Come and take a look,' the father says. His son peers through his rifle scope until he spots the man, then steadies his breath and lines up the crosshairs... Set over the course of one hot and claustrophobic weekend, GOAT MOUNTAIN is the story of a family struggling to contend with a terrible crime, its repercussions, and the slow descent into hell..."
  • ""En el otoño de 1978, en un rancho familiar de Goat Mountain, al norte de California, un niño de once años, acompaña a su padre, su abuelo, y un amigo de su padre en la jornada de caza de ciervos que la familiar celebra anualmente. Cada otoño vuelven a este paisaje seco y amarillento salpicado por toda clase de árboles, pero estaeaño será el primero en el que le permitan disparar. Durante la expedición, el padre descubra un cazador furtivo en los alrededores del rancho y decide mostrárselo a su hijo, invitándole a mirar a través de la mirilla del rifle. De pronto, ese simple gesto dará pie a una verdadera tragedia que obligrará a toda la familia a replantearse sus vidas."--Back cover"
  • "In the fall of 1978, on the 640-acre family deer-hunting ranch on Goat Mountain in Northern California, an eleven-year-old boy goes hunting with three men: his father, grandfather, and a friend of his father's. Goat Mountain is a dry place of live oak and buck brush and poison oak with occasional relief from stands of ponderosa pine, white pine, and sugar pine, and even a swampy bear wallow. This is the place where all the family's memories and stories and history are held. When the men arrive at the gate to their land, the father spots a poacher hunting illegally on his property. When he lets his eleven-year-old son take a look through the scope of his rifle, the boy pulls the trigger. The men struggle over what to do with the dead man. Though the struggle begins between the father and grandfather, it ultimately becomes a struggle between the grandfather and the boy. By the end, nothing is as it seems."@en
  • "In the fall of 1978, on the 640-acre family deer-hunting ranch on Goat Mountain in Northern California, an eleven-year-old boy goes hunting with three men: his father, grandfather, and a friend of his father's. Goat Mountain is a dry place of live oak and buck brush and poison oak with occasional relief from stands of ponderosa pine, white pine, and sugar pine, and even a swampy bear wallow. This is the place where all the family's memories and stories and history are held. When the men arrive at the gate to their land, the father spots a poacher hunting illegally on his property. When he lets his eleven-year-old son take a look through the scope of his rifle, the boy pulls the trigger. The men struggle over what to do with the dead man. Though the struggle begins between the father and grandfather, it ultimately becomes a struggle between the grandfather and the boy. By the end, nothing is as it seems."
  • "The prizewinning author of Dirt, Caribou Island, and Legend of a Suicide returns with a searing, morally complex novel about families, violence, regret, and shattered faith. In the fall of 1978, on a 640-acre family ranch on Goat Mountain in Northern California, an eleven-year-old boy joins his grandfather, his father, and his father's best friend on the family's annual deer hunt. Every fall they return to this dry, yellowed landscape dotted with oak, buckbrush, and the occasional stand of pine trees. Goat Mountain is what this family owns and where they belong. It is where their history is kept, where their memories and stories are shared. And for the first time, the boy's story will become part of their narrative, if he can find a buck. Itching to shoot, he is ready. When the men arrive at the gate to their land, the father discovers a poacher and sights him through the scope of his gun. He offers his son a look'a simple act that will explode in tragedy, transforming these men and this family, forcing them to question themselves and everything they thought they knew. David Vann creates a haunting and provocative novel, in prose devastating and beautiful in its precision, that explores our most primal urges and beliefs, the bonds of blood and religion that define and secure us, and the consequences of our actions'what we owe for what we've done."@en
  • "A novel that challenges our notions about masculinity, identity and the bonds formed through violence. Three generations of men hunt for deer on Goat Mountain. One hot autumn day, grandfather, son and grandson discover a poacher on their land. The eleven-year-old studies the poacher through the scope of his father's rifle, and pulls the trigger. Goat Mountain is an intensely powerful novel about how these men, and their boy, deal with the poacher's death, and with his body. In prose devastating and beautiful in its precision, David Vann explores our most primal urg."
  • "In the fall of 1978, on the 640-acre family deer-hunting ranch on Goat Mountain in Northern California, an eleven-year-old boy goes hunting with three men: his father, grandfather, and a friend of his father's."@en

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  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
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  • "Mystery fiction"
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  • "Erzählende Literatur"
  • "Suspense fiction"
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  • "Goat mountain a novel"
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