Caribou Island-SIGNED AND LOCATED FIRST PRINTING

Gets to places other novels can't touch (New York Times)

An extravagantly gifted and moving writer (Sunday Times)

Wields an unforgiving, elemental power that is breathtaking to read (Independent on Sunday)

Beautiful, richly atmospheric . . . deserves to consolidate Vann's position among America's literary high flyers (Evening Standard)

The prose here frequently achieves a quite astonishing beauty (Daily Telegraph)

A novel of fine artistry and stark emotional truth - full of our darkest currents and faintest sounds (The Times)

A writer to read and reread (Economist)

Beautifully written and bitterly funny (Financial Times)

Caribou Island is a scant 300 pages, and written in prose as pellucid as the rivers he used to fish as a boy. But it says so much: about men and women, about marriage, about the desperate gap between who we want to be and who we are (Observer)