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Exiles Paperback - 1998
by Caputo, Philip
- Used
In this startling new work of fiction, the acclaimed author of "A Rumor of War" has created three powerful dramas of dislocation, following his characters into situations that are vastly--and dangerously--beyond their depth.
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Details
- Title Exiles
- Author Caputo, Philip
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: repri
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, NY
- Date 1998-05-26
- Bookseller's Inventory # 14881729-6
- ISBN 9780679768388 / 0679768386
- Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.2 x 0.9 in (20.32 x 13.21 x 2.29 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: New England
- Cultural Region: Oceania
- Cultural Region: Southeast Asian
- Library of Congress subjects Vietnam, Connecticut
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Summary
From the publisher
From the jacket flap
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.
Media reviews
Citations
- New York Times, 08/09/1998, Page 28
- Publishers Weekly, 09/06/1999, Page 78