Exiles
by Philip Caputo
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0679768386
- ISBN 13
- 9780679768388
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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
- Powell's Bookstores Chicago (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- D60119
- Title
- Exiles
- Author
- Philip Caputo
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0679768386
- ISBN 13
- 9780679768388
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Place of Publication
- Ny
- This edition first published
- May 26, 1998
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