A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
Robert Olen Butler's lyrical and poignant collection of stories about the aftermath of the Vietnam War and its impact on the Vietnamese was acclaimed by critics across the nation and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993. Now Grove Press is proud to reissue this contemporary classic by one of America's...
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Robert Olen Butler's lyrical and poignant collection of stories about the aftermath of the Vietnam War and its impact on the Vietnamese was acclaimed by critics across the nation and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993. Now Grove Press is proud to reissue this contemporary classic by one of America's most important living writers, in a new edition of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain that includes two subsequently published stories -- "Salem" and "Missing" -- that brilliantly complete the collection's narrative journey, returning to the jungles of Vietnam.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780802137982 (0802137989)
ASIN: B0033AGSZA
Publish date: May 10th 2001
Publisher: Grove Press
Pages no: 269
Edition language: English
Category:
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
American,
Literary Fiction,
War,
Contemporary,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
Modern,
Short Stories
At first it was strong dislike, a lot of critique of the stories. And then there was less dislike, but I just could not come to like this book.I appreciate the effort, all that research into the country and its culture (repeated mention of ancestor worship, for instance) I know I wasn't born at that...
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