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Author Vann, David.

Title Dirt / by David Vann
Published Melbourne, Vic. : Text Publishing, 2012

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 MELB  810.6 V2642 A6/D  AVAILABLE
 MELB  810.6 V2642 A6/D  AVAILABLE
 MELB  810.6 V2642 A6/D  AVAILABLE
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 MELB  810.6 V2642 A6/D  AVAILABLE
Description 1 volume
Summary The year is 1985, and twenty-two-year-old Galen lives with his emotionally dependent mother in a secluded old house surrounded by a walnut orchard in a suburb of Sacramento. He doesn't know who his father is, his abusive grandfather is dead, and his grandmother, losing her memory, has been shipped off to a nursing home. Galen and his mother survive on the family's trust fund--old money that his aunt, Helen, and seventeen-year-old cousin, Jennifer, are determined to get their hands on. Galen, a New Age believer who considers himself an old soul, yearns for transformation: to free himself from the corporeal, to be as weightless as air, to walk on water. But he's powerless to stop the manic binges that overtake him, leading him to fixate on forbidden desires. A prisoner of his body, he is obsessed with thoughts of the boldly flirtatious Jennifer and dreams of shedding himself of the clinging mother whose fears and needs weigh him down
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Subject Cousins -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Fiction.
ISBN 1921922575
9781921922572