Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
  • Published:
    Mar-1992 (Hardcover)
    Jun-1993 (Paperback)
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    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    144
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: “Uncannily perceptive stories written by an American from the viewpoint of Vietnamese citizens transplanted to Louisiana” (People).
 
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain is Robert Olen Butler's Pulitzer Prize"winning collection of lyrical and poignant stories about the aftermath of the Vietnam War and its enduring impact on the Vietnamese. Written in a soaring prose, Butler's haunting and powerful stories blend Vietnamese folklore and contemporary American realities, creating a vibrant panorama that is epic in its scope. This new edition includes two previously uncollected stories -- “Missing” and “Salem” -- that brilliantly complete the collection's narrative journey, returning to the jungles of Vietnam to explore the experiences of a former Vietcong soldier and an American MIA.
 
“Deeply affecting . . . A brilliant collection of stories about storytellers whose recited folklore radiates as implicit prayer . . . One of the strongest collections I've read in ages.” -- Ann Beattie
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EDITIONS
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    •  
    • Jun-1993
    • Penguin
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0140176640
    • ISBN13: 9780140176643
    •  
    • May-2001
    • Grove Press
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0802137989
    • ISBN13: 9780802137982
    •  
    • Aug-2016
    • No Exit Press
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1843447606
    • ISBN13: 9781843447603
    • First Edition
    • Mar-1992
    • Henry Holt
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0805019863
    • ISBN13: 9780805019865
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    • Mar-2012
    • Grove Press
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Mar-2012
    • Grove Press
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0802193897
    • ISBN13: 9780802193896
    •  
    • Sep-2015
    • No Exit Press
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1843447614
    • ISBN13: 9781843447610
    •  
    • Aug-2016
    • Brilliance Audio
    • MP3 CD
    • ISBN: 1522687513
    • ISBN13: 9781522687511
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    • Jul-2020
    • Brilliance Audio
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 179973787X
    • ISBN13: 9781799737872



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