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In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he'll find actionand profitby getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go horribly wrong for him. Dog Soldiers perfectly captures the underground mood of America in the 1970s, when amateur drug dealers and hippies encountered profiteering cops and professional killersand the price of survival was dangerously high.
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Like Michael Herr's Dispatches, Robert Stone's National Book Award-winning novel Dog Soldiers trades on a hallucinatory vision of Vietnam as a place in which all honor and morality are ceded to the mere business of survival -- and, better, survival with personal profit. "This is the place where everybody finds out who they are," says the novel's protagonist, the journalist Converse, to which his friend and partner in crime Ray Hicks replies, "What a bummer for the gooks." Converse convinces Hicks to smuggle a shipment of heroin back to the United States, renegade CIA agents pop up, and all hell breaks loose in this beautifully written, dark study of the soul in anguish.
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Robert Stone (1937-2015) received most of the accolades and awards possible for a contemporary novelist, and he has been called the best writer of the post-Vietnam era. His many novels, which have enjoyed commercial success as well as critical acclaim, include the National Book Award winner Dog Soldiers, Damascus Gate, Bay of Souls, and A Hall of Mirrors. He was also the author of the short story collection Bear and His Daughter, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
Tom Stechschulte has narrated well over a hundred audiobooks and has won sixteen AudioFile Earphones Awards. He won the prestigious Audie Award in 2009 and has been a finalist for the Audie in 2005 and 2011. As an actor, he has been seen in eleven Broadway shows as well as numerous television and film shows, including the remake of The Manchurian Candidate.
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- PublisherSecker & Warburg
- Publication date1975
- ISBN 10 0436496801
- ISBN 13 9780436496806
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages350
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Book Description Condition: Very Good. London: Secker & Warburg 1975. 1st UK edition. Title pg and copyrt pg state Secker & Warburg, book and jacket spines state Houghton Mifflin. Hardcover 8vo 342 pgs. Very good in a good dust jacket. Light foxing spots to fore edge and bottom edge of textblock. Contents clean and binding sound. Jacket worn at bottom edge and spine heel. Small waterstain at jacket spine head. Jacket spine and front panel near spine are soiled and toned. No price on front flap. Jacket front panel is white with black lettering, and red and orange background at lower edge. (vietnam war, military history, historical fiction, novel) Inquire if you need further information. Seller Inventory # B37185-F-STO
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Interesting copy. The title page states "Secker & Warburg, London". The copyright page reads "Published in England 1975 by Martin Secker & Warburg Limited" and "PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA". The imprinted publisher's name on the spine is Houghton Mifflin Company and the dust jacket is a Houghton Mifflin copy. The volume is bumped on the top edge and bottom front corner. Some of the lettering on both the front panel and spine is starting to flake. The top of pages 3-6 have a chip and tear affecting text on pp 5-6. The price clipped dust jacket, sleeve protected, has corner nicks, scratches on the front panel, and the spine tail is worn with nicks, tears, abrasions and scratches. Seller Inventory # 20080918
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-library book, usual markings. Clean copy in good condition. Quick dispatch from UK seller. Seller Inventory # mon0000184769
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First British Edition. Near fine in NF dustjacket (mylar-protected). The odd 'mixed issue' of the British edition, i.e. Secker & Warburg is stated publisher title & copyright page but Houghton Mifflin on spine and dustjacket. No price appears on dustjacket; text block is slightly bulkier than the American first edition. Winner of National Book Award, 1981. One of the very best Vietnam novels, and often considered the author's best. Britsh ed. is scarce according to Stone's bibliographer, Ken Lopez. Seller Inventory # 007413
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