A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain - Softcover

Butler, Robert Olen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140176640 ISBN 13: 9780140176643

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1993

Synopsis

A collection of stories about Vietnamese immigrants living in Louisiana as they face love, loss, despair, and the challenges and conflicts of a new life

About this title

Review:

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.

About the Author:

ROBERT OLEN BUTLER is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of numerous novels and short story collections. He has twice won a National Magazine Award in Fiction and has received two Pushcart Prizes. He teaches creative writing at Florida State University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0140176640
• ISBN 13: 9780140176643
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144