A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories
by Robert Olen Butler
Robert Olen Butler's
lyrical and poignant collection of stories about the aftermath of the
Vietnam War and its impact on the Vietnamese was acclaimed by critics
across the nation and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993. Now Grove Press is
proud to reissue this contemporary classic by one of America's most
important living writers, in a new edition of A Good Scent from a
Strange Mountain that includes two subsequently published stories --
"Salem" and "Missing" -- that brilliantly complete the collection's
narrative journey, returning to the jungles of Vietnam.
lyrical and poignant collection of stories about the aftermath of the
Vietnam War and its impact on the Vietnamese was acclaimed by critics
across the nation and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993. Now Grove Press is
proud to reissue this contemporary classic by one of America's most
important living writers, in a new edition of A Good Scent from a
Strange Mountain that includes two subsequently published stories --
"Salem" and "Missing" -- that brilliantly complete the collection's
narrative journey, returning to the jungles of Vietnam.