Exiles (Paperback, 1st Vintage Contemporaries Ed)

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.

General

Imprint:	Random House USA Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Vintage Contemporaries
Release date:	May 1998
First published:	May 1998
Authors:	Philip Caputo
Dimensions:	206 x 135 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	368
Edition:	1st Vintage Contemporaries Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-679-76838-8
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Fiction > Special features > Short stories Promotions
LSN:	0-679-76838-6
Barcode:	9780679768388

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