Goat Mountain: Where Innocence Meets Violence – A Searing American Tale of Family and Hunting

Goat Mountain: Where Innocence Meets Violence – A Searing American Tale of Family and Hunting

<p>In David Vann€s searing novel <em>Goat Mountain</em>, an 11-year-old boy at his family€s 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.<br /> <br />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 actions€"what we owe for what we€ve done.<br /> <br />David Vann is the award-winning author of <em>Legend of a Suicide</em>, <em>Caribou Island</em>, <em>A Mile Down</em>, and <em>Last Day on Earth</em>.</p>