A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
1992 book by Robert Olen Butler / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain is a 1992 collection of short stories by Robert Olen Butler. It received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1993.
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Author | Robert Olen Butler |
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Cover artist | Jacket illustration by Neil Flewellen Jacket design by Carin Goldberg |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Published | 1992 (Henry Holt) |
Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
Pages | 249 pp (first edition, hardback) |
ISBN | 0-8050-1986-3 (first edition, hardback) |
OCLC | 24285600 |
813/.54 20 | |
LC Class | PS3552.U8278 G66 1992 |
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Each story in the collection is narrated by a different Vietnamese immigrant living in the US state of Louisiana. The stories are largely character-driven and center on cultural differences between Vietnam and the United States. Many of the stories were first published in literary journals, and the collection was re-released in 2001 with two additional stories, "Salem" and "Missing".