New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1997.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. His first collection of shorter fiction - the novels are set in suburban Connecticut, in Australia's Torres Strait, and in Vietnam, during the war. INSCRIBED on the half title page and dated in the year of publication. 353 pp.

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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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Bookseller: Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 80770
Title: EXILES: Three Short Novels.
Author: Caputo, Philip
Format/Binding: SIGNED hardcover first edition -
Book Condition: Used - Fine in fine dust jacket.
Jacket Condition: fine
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0679450386
ISBN 13: 9780679450382
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf,
Place of Publication: New York:
Date Published: 1997.
Keywords: novellas, connecticut, australia, vietnam war,
Bookseller catalogs: Modern first editions;

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