

Halibut on the Moon
Author: David Vann
Narrator: George Newbern
Unabridged: 6 hr 57 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Published: 04/08/2019
Categories: Fiction, Family Life
Author: David Vann
Narrator: George Newbern
Unabridged: 6 hr 57 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Published: 04/08/2019
Categories: Fiction, Family Life
David Vann is an internationally bestselling author whose works have been published in twenty-three languages, won fourteen prizes, and have appeared on eighty-three "Best Books" lists. A former Guggenheim fellow, he is currently a professor at the University of Warwick in England as well as an honorary professor at the University of Franche-Comté in France.
I’m not really sure how I feel about this book so I wasn’t really sure what to say about it or how to rate it. It’s not one I can say I enjoyed reading. It’s a heavy read. It’s haunting and uncomfortable and painful to be inside the head of a manic depressive man who wants to end his life. I certain......more
Are there any signs in Jim? If he walks past someone on the sidewalk, someone he’s never met, can they tell he’s poison? Halibut on the Moon by David Vann is one of the most riveting books I have read in a while. I couldn’t put the thing down. Jim lives in Alaska. He’s a dentist and lives alone in a r......more
3.5 stars Don’t be fooled by the lighthearted sounding title of Halibut on the Moon. There is nothing light about this book. Author David Vann writes a fictionalized account of the last few days of his father’s life. Jim Vann is a bipolar dentist whose life has gone off the rails. Twice divorced, owi......more
Imagine its white underside against the white dust and ash and sand or whatever it is on the moon, looking identical, like a mirror image, and that dark topside looking like the moon from farther away, patterns like craters. Dark side of the moon, essentially. The halibut has been waiting for thi......more