Dog Soldiers
by STONE, Robert
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Collectible - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0436496801
- ISBN 13
- 9780436496806
- Seller
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Frederick, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Secker & Warburg. Collectible - Very Good. London: Secker & Warburg 1975. 1st UK edition. Title pg and copyrt pg state Secker & Warburg, book and jacket spines state Houghton Mifflin. Hardcover 8vo 342 pgs. Very good in a good dust jacket. Light foxing spots to fore edge and bottom edge of textblock. Contents clean and binding sound. Jacket worn at bottom edge and spine heel. Small waterstain at jacket spine head. Jacket spine and front panel near spine are soiled and toned. No price on front flap. Jacket front panel is white with black lettering, and red and orange background at lower edge. (vietnam war, military history, historical fiction, novel) Inquire if you need further information.
Synopsis
Robert Stone is an American novelist. His work is typically characterized by psychological complexity, political concerns, and dark humor. The novel, Dog Soldiers , won the National Book Award for fiction in 1975. It is considered an action-thriller and a meditation on the manner in which the Vietnam experience permeated America. The story is set in the days of the Vietnam War, in Saigon. A journalist named John Converse is planning to find action and profit by getting involved in a considerable drug deal, smuggling 3 kilo’s of heroin into the States. Before long, his scheme fails and goes wrong, extremely, and terribly wrong. Stone attempts to, and succeeds in capturing perfectly the mood of America during the 1970’s with this elaborate and substantial novel.
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- Bookseller
- Wonder Book
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B37185-F-STO
- Title
- Dog Soldiers
- Author
- STONE, Robert
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectible - Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0436496801
- ISBN 13
- 9780436496806
- Publisher
- Secker & Warburg
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1975
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About Wonder Book
With 3 stores less than 1 hour outside the DC/Metropolitan area (1 in Gaithersburg, 1 in Frederick and 1 in Hagerstown, MD), we have the largest selection of books in the tri-state area. Wonder Book and Video has been in business since 1980 and online since 1997. We have over 1 Million books for sale on our website and another 1 Million books for sale in our 3 locations. We have a very active online inventory and as such, we can receive multiple orders for the same item. We fill those orders on a first come first serve basis, but will refund promptly any items that are out of stock. Since 1980 it has always been about the books. ALL kinds of books from 95 cent children\'s paperbacks to five figure rare and collectibles. A merging of the old and new is where we started, and it is where we are today. Our retail stores have always been places where a reader can rush in looking for a title needed for a term paper that is due the next day, or where bibliophiles can get lost \"in the stacks\" for as long as they wish. In 2002 USAToday recognized us as \"1 of 10 Great Old Bookstores\", and we have been featured in numerous other newspaper and TV stories including Washington Post and CSpan.
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- Heel
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