| Front Cover |
Book Details |
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| Genre |
Fiction |
| Subject |
<No subjects avaliable (LOC)> |
| Publication Date |
1997 |
| Format |
Hardcover (9.8
mm)
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| Publisher |
Knopf |
| Language |
English |
| Extras |
Dust Jacket; Dust Jacket Cover |
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| Description |
With Exiles, his first collection of shorter fiction, the author of the universally acclaimed, best-selling memoir A Rumor of War ("It will make the strongest among us weep", wrote John Gregory Dunne) sends the reader on a tripartite adventure.
First to suburban Connecticut, where a young blue-collar man on the way to his mother's funeral falls in with an upper-crust couple who lavish attention on him and pull him into unexpected dilemmas.
Then to Australia's Torres Strait, where a charismatic but troublesome stranger washes ashore into the thick of a struggle for a tiny island's very identity.
Then to Vietnam--vintage Caputo territory--where a squad of misfits plunge deep into the jungle in search of the body of their mess sergeant, who has been carried off by a tiger.
No matter the backdrop, Philip Caputo's ear for the vernacular is unerring, while his interrogation of human nature--of the deceptions we inflict on ourselves and others--is unflinching. Exiles affirms the remarkable range, the freedom from genre, of a writer whose "meditations on the love and hate of war were hailed by William Styron as "among the most eloquent I have read in modern literature. |
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| Product Details |
| LoC Classification |
PS3553.A625E9 1997 |
| Dewey |
813/.54 |
| ISBN |
0679450386 |
| Edition |
[1st ed.] |
| Cover Price |
$25.00 |
| No. of Pages |
353 |
| First Edition |
Yes |
| Rare |
No |
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