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Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, A (Collection)
 

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Short Stories
Historical
Fiction (General)

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# Date Publisher Binding Cover
1 1992-00-00 Henry Holt  

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Awarded the Pulitzer Prize, 1993 Nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award, 1993 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. This new edition of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain includes two subsequently published stories -- "Salem" and "Missing" -- that brilliantly complete the collection"s narrative journey, returning to the jungles of Vietnam.

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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