Goat Mountain
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نقد و بررسی
July 1, 2013
Vann (Dirt) offers a meditation on violence set during a deer hunt on a Northern California mountain in 1978. The narrator recalls in flashback a few âdays I want to remember in every smallest detail,â when his 11-year-old self, seeking his first buck, âjust wanted to kill, constantly and without end.â But the huntâs first victim proves to be a person, not a deer. The boy sights a poacher through his rifle scope and, purposefully but seemingly without conscious malice, shoots him dead. Through most of the narrative, the narrator, his father, grandfather, and family friend Tom quarrel about what to do with the body, for a time trussing it up like a dead deer. The menâs bonds gradually collapse until, in the harrowing climax, the grandfather reaches a decision, with Old Testament finality, about how to evade the consequences of the boyâs actions. The adult narrator steps out of flashback periodically to ponder the nature of killing: âThere was no joy as complete and immediate as killing.â This flint-hard novel, in its intensity, will likely be compared to the work of Cormac McCarthy.
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