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Search - A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
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Book Description:
Robert Olen Butler's lyrical and poignant collection of stories about the aftermath of the Vietnam War and its impact on the Vietnamese was acclaimed by critics across the nation and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993. Now Grove Press is proud to reissue this contemporary classic by one of America's most important living writers, in a new edition of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain that includes two subsequently published stories -- "Salem" and "Missing" -- that brilliantly complete the collection's narrative journey, returning to the jungles of Vietnam.Members who requested this book also requested:
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- Literature & Fiction >> General >> Contemporary
- Literature & Fiction >> Short Stories >> United States
- Literature & Fiction >> Short Stories >> General
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This is the book to go to if someone wanted to study how an author can use different "voices." Lovely. All of the stories work off of one another to make each other more powerful than they would have been if read individually, and I can't imagine something like that to be easy to accomplish.
I'm not generally a short story reader. However, this collection was very interesting. I don't know if the author has caught an authentic Vietnamese voice, but he did present a culture in its similarities and differences to U.S. culture.
Debra R. (This book offers a nice variety of magical stories from Vietnamese stories about people coming from there and those who live here. I really learned quite abit about the richness of the culture.
Marisa P. from NEW YORK, NY wrote on 4/12/2006...beautifully written. Poignant and inspirational.
Julia W. from HAMILTON, MT wrote on 12/14/2005...i find this book to be more of a light at the end of a tunnle tha we do not know much about the vitame war was very heart felt not just one us ut the people of the land itself and this books tell about how some of them felt i did not know that it was like any other time becuase i was little when it happened so i started to reserach and I found this oh and it is very good i recemond it to any who like history