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Seller: Spafford Books (ABAC / ILAB), Regina, SK, CanadaSpafford Books (ABAC / ILAB)
AbeBooks seller since March 21, 2000
Condition: Used
US$ 18.43
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[0-8050-3130-8] 1997, Advance reader's copy. (Mass market paperback) Fine. 226pp. 8vo. Signed. Advance reader's copy. Related ephemera stapled in. Love story set in contemporary Vietnam. Butler won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1993. Fine copy.
Seller Inventory # 130289
- Title
- The Deep Green Sea
- Author
- Butler, Robert Olen
- Publisher
- Henry Holt Company, New York
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Soft cover
- ISBN 10
- 0805031308
- ISBN 13
- 9780805031300
- Seller catalogs
- Literature And Fiction
In The Deep Green Sea, Robert Olen Butler has created a memorable and incandescent love story between Tien, a contemporary Vietnamese woman orphaned in 1975, when the city finally fell to the Communists, and Ben, a Vietnam veteran who returns from America to a war-torn land, seeking closure and a measure of peace. Bit by bit they learn more of each other's pasts. Secrets are revealed: Ben's love affair with a Vietnamese prostitute in 1966; Tien's mixed racial heritage and her abandonment by her bar-girl mother, who feared retribution from the North Vietnamese for having given birth to one of the hated "children of dust." In Butler's hands, what follows conjures the stuff of classical tragedy and also achieves a classic reconciliation of once-warring cultures. Infused equally with eroticism and with Butler's deep and abiding reverence for Vietnamese myth and history, The Deep Green Sea is a landmark work in the literature of love and war.
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About the Author
Robert Olen Butler is the author of seven novels, six of which are available in Owl editions, the most recent being Tabloid Dreams (Owl Books, 0-8050-5589-4), and two volumes of stories, including the Pulitzer Prize winning A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain. He lives in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
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Spafford Books (ABAC / ILAB)
Regina, SK, Canada
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OWNER/SOLE PROPRIETOR: Leah Spafford
BUSINESS NAME: Spafford Books
PHYSICAL ADDRESS: 1637 Broad Street, Regina, SK, Canada, S4P 3W7
MAILING ADDRESS: P.O. Box 4373, Regina, SK, Canada, S4P 3W7
CONTACT: Leah Spafford
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