Description
ISBN: 0805019863
Title: A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
Author: Butler, Robert Olen
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Henry Holt, New York
Publication Date: 1992
Edition: First Edition. Fourth Printing.
Book Condition: F
D-j Condition: NF
Synopsis: A collection of stories by the author of The Deuce, Wabash, The Alleys of Eden, and On Distant Ground features tales of the residents of Saigon as they face love, loss, despair, and more.
The Vietnam War continues to play itself out in fiction, autobiography, and history books, but no American author has captured the experiences of the Vietnamese themselves–and caught their voices–more tellingly than Robert Olen Butler, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain. The 15 stories collected here, all written in the first person, blend Vietnamese folklore, the terrible, lingering memories of war, American pop culture and family drama. Butler’s literary ventriloquism, as he mines the experiences of a people with a great literary tradition of their own, is uncanny; but his talents as a writer of universal truths is what makes this a collection for the ages.
