Exiles: Three Short Novels
by Caputo, Philip
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine copy in fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0679450386
- ISBN 13
- 9780679450382
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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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- Abacus Bookshop (US)
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- BOOKS081839I
- Title
- Exiles: Three Short Novels
- Author
- Caputo, Philip
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine copy in fine dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0679450386
- ISBN 13
- 9780679450382
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1997
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