New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. Softcover. Near Fine. Uncorrected proof with publisher's promotional material laid in and stapled to interior cover. Printed wrappers. Lightly soiled wraps with a slightly sunned spine, near fine.

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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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Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (US)
Seller's Inventory #: 501514
Title: Exiles: Three Short Novels
Author: CAPUTO, Philip
Format/Binding: Softcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0679450386
ISBN 13: 9780679450382
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1997
Keywords: UncorrectedProof

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