Wynn Wheldon

All change: everything metamorphoses in Aquarium, including its author, who takes on the persona of a 12-year-old girl

Fish become humans, humans fish in the fairy-tale world of David Vann’s poetic novel, Aquarium

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issue 14 March 2015
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  • Aquarium

    David Vann

    Heinemann, pp. 266

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