Dirt
Subtitle: a novel
By: David Vann
Publisher: Heinemann
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780434021963; 9781448134809
Subjects: Young men; Mothers and sons; Family violence; Fiction
Description: The year is 1985 and 22 year old Galen lives with his emotionally dependent mother in a secluded old house in Sacramento, California. He doesn't know who his father is, his abusive grandfather is dead, and his grandmother, losing her memory, has been shipping off to a nursing home. A bulimic vegetarian who considers himself an old soul, Galen is a New Age believer on a warpath towards transcendance.