A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
by Robert Olen Butler
Taste attributes: dramawarslowfresh & originalheavyrealisticenclosedemotive & stirringfish out of water/culture clashhuman spirit/resilience/survivaltroubled leads
Boxlist takeA grounded novel that is stirring, serious and fresh. Best if you like real life over fantasy.
Pace: balanced · Originality: fresh · Tone: balanced · Weight: heavy · Realism: true to life · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: balanced · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score
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About This Book
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.
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- Robert Olen Butler
- Published
- 1992
- Pages
- 268
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