Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1997. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stated First Edition. The Book Is Bound Within Boards With Blue Paper Over One Quarter Brown. Gilt Lettering On The Spine. The Jacket Has Light Edge Wear.

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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: Granada Bookstore (Member IOBA) (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 015857
Title: Exiles: Three Short Novels
Author: Caputo, Philip
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0679450386
ISBN 13: 9780679450382
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
Place of Publication: Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1997
Pages: 353
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
Keywords: Connecticut - Fiction; Torres Strait Islands (Qld.) - Fiction; Vietnam - Fiction Literary, Short Stories (single author)

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