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Exiles (Signed)
by CAPUTO, Philip
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0679450386
- ISBN 13
- 9780679450382
- Seller
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
NY: Knopf, 1997. Bound in orange and gray boards, stamped in gold in colorful, illustrated dust jacket. Three Short Novels by the author of "A Rumor of War". Great reviews. Signed by the author on the half-title page. 353 pp.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.
Synopsis
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.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- abookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 59006299
- Title
- Exiles (Signed)
- Author
- CAPUTO, Philip
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0679450386
- ISBN 13
- 9780679450382
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- Novellas
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed; Addbooks85;
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