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      On Distant Ground

      by Robert Olen Butler
      Published
      Feb 1985
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      General Fiction General Fiction
      Pages
      256
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      The winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. An army intelligence captain is to be court-martialled for having kidnapped and set free a Viet Cong officer. This forces him to confront two sets of events - his own concern for the prisoner, and his memories of an affair with a Vietnamese woman.

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      Jan 1994 Houghton Mifflin ISBN13 9780805031409 ISBN10 0805031405
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      Dec 1985 Random House ISBN13 9780345325969 ISBN10 0345325966
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      First Edition Feb 1985 Knopf ISBN13 9780394540405 ISBN10 0394540409
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      Jan 1994 Henry Holt ISBN13 9780805031980 ISBN10 0805031987
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