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A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

by Robert Olen Butler

Awards

1993 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
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Synopses & Reviews

Review:

"Each story unfolds like a delicate paper fan, with startling, ghostly images hiding in every crevice." Rita Ciresi, Library Journal

Review:

"Remarkable...for how beautifully it achieves its daring project of making the Vietnamese real." George Packer, The New York Times Book Review
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Table of Contents

Open arms — Mr. Green — The trip back — Fairy tale — Crickets — Letters from my father — Love — Mid-autumn — In the clearing — A ghost story — Snow — Relic — Preparation — The American couple — A good scent from a strange mountain.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780140176643
Author:
Butler, Robert Olen
Publisher:
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Author:
Butler, Robert Olen
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Louisiana
Subject:
Short Stories (single author)
Subject:
Short stories
Subject:
Vietnamese Americans
Subject:
Louisiana Fiction.
Subject:
Vietnamese Americans -- Louisiana -- Fiction.
Subject:
General Fiction
Copyright:
1993
Edition Number:
1st ed.
Series Volume:
402
Publication Date:
June 1993
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
272
Dimensions:
7.72x5.03x.52 in. .40 lbs.
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