- Fiction, Short stories, Social life and customs, Vietnamese Americans
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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- Author
- Robert Olen Butler
- First published
- 1992
- Pages
- 268
- Publisher
- Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated, Amer Audio Prose Library Inc, Henry Holt
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- English, French, Japanese, vie
- ISBN
- 9780802137982
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Robert Olen Butler (born January 20, 1945) is an American fiction writer. His short-story collection *A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain* was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1993.
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