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Summary: "In 1986, the teenage daughter of a wealthy family gets lost in an abandoned rubber plantation while fleeing her angry father and is forever changed ...
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American Heritage. Oct, 1995, Vol. 46 Issue 6, p108, 2 p.
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* By the time Saigon fell, Americans were so sadly familiar with the war's televised jungle patrols, booby traps, napalmed earth, and body bags that little ...
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Summary: Thirteen-year-old Kelly tries to befriend Mr. Weems, a disturbed homeless Vietnam War veteran who spends his days in her suburban ...
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Summary: Hang, a modern Vietnamese woman, is forced to grow up quickly in her turbulent country, squeezed between traditional gender roles and the rampant corruption ...
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Age, The (Melbourne, Australia), October 27, 2012 Life & Style First, p. 34 3pp
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THE DARKEST LITTLE ROOM By Patrick Holland Transit Lounge, $29.95 REVIEW CHRIS FLYNN INDEPENDENT Melbourne publisher Transit Lounge has made a significant mark on the Australian ...
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War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities. Fall/Winter1998, Vol. 10 Issue 2, p239. 14p.
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Focuses on the moral vision of Vietnam literature. Emphasis on enhancing the chances of Vietnamese for survival; References of literary works ...
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War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities. 2021, Vol. 33, p27-54. 28p.
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The article presents an interview with authors Quan Manh Ha and Joseph Babcock. Quan Manh Ha discusses his book "Other Moons: Vietnamese Short Stories of ...
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Canadian Review of American Studies. 2020, Vol. 50 Issue 1, p45-101. 57p.
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This article chronicles the way book covers on American novels about the Vietnam War, both during and after the conflict, not ... Cet article examine comment les couvertures des romans américains portant sur la guerre du Vietnam, tant durant le conflit qu'aprè... Copyright of Canadian Review of American Studies is the property of University of Toronto Press and its content may not be copied or emailed ...
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Summary: Percival Chen, a headmaster at a prestigious English-language school in 1960s Saigon, must exile his trouble-making son and to deal with his troubles and ...
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The article discusses the re-gendering of the tropes of the trauma hero narrative in Siobhan Fallon's collection of short stories "You Know When the Men ...
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Summary: A Vietnamese man working as Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas's cook in 1934 Paris looks back on his early life in his native country ...
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A novel about a captain in the United States Army Military Intelligence who attempts to come to grips with the meaning of his actions during ...
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War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities. 2011, Vol. 23 Issue 1, p22-33. 12p.
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The author discusses the memory and meaning of narrative reflections during the "Twentieth Century Warfare and American Memory" symposium held at Regis University in Denver, ...
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The article presents the author's reflections regarding the use of writing as a therapeutic practice for war veterans. The author's personal experiences in writing the ...
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Examines Robert Olen Butler's stories about the American veteran's efforts to assimilate into American society after his service in Vietnam, as ...
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World & I. Feb2004, Vol. 19 Issue 2, p260-271. 12p. 3 Black and White Photographs.
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Focuses on the publication of humorous military novels. Theme of the novel "Onionhead," by Weldon Hill; Success of the book "See Here, Private Hargrove," by ...
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Black Issues Book Review. Jul/Aug2002, Vol. 4 Issue 4, p24-26. 3p. 3 Color Photographs.
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Provides information on the book-to-movie and vice versa trend in the U.S. entertainment industry, as of July 2002. Novels written by writer-producer-director John Ridley; Distinction ...
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Critical Survey of Long Fiction. 2010, v. 2, p676-681.
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Robert Olen Butler Granite City, Illinois; January 20, 1945 Robert Olen Butler, Jr. P , 1981 , 1982 , 1983 , 1985 , 1987 , 1989 , 1994 , 1997 [...]
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American Writers : A Collection of Literary Biographies, Supplement 12. 2003, p61-78.
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Robert Olen Butler 1945– R O B was born on January 20, 1945, in Granite City, Illinois, a small town on the Mississippi River a few miles northeast ...
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Short Stories for Students. 2001, v. 11, p60-77.
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A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain Robert Olen Butler 1992 Robert Olen Butler had already published five novels—most of them concerning ...
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Summary: John Kelly tries to juggle two assignments helping a friend and rescuing a group of prisoners in a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp.
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Summary: Shunned and mistreated because of her mixed heritage, and determined to avoid an arranged marriage, seventeen-year-old Loi runs away to Ho Chi Minh City ...
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Summary: Shunned and mistreated because of her mixed heritage and determined to avoid an arranged marriage, seventeen-year-old Loi runs away to Ho Chi Minh City ...
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The Austin American-Statesman (TX). Jan 26, 1996, F1.
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WASHINGTON -- Al Franken, best-known for his satire on NBC-TV's ''Saturday Night Live,'' has written a very funny book that is surprisingly serious in ...
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This literary criticism presents the book "Meditations in Green" by Stephen Wright. It outlines the characters and explores the book's symbolic use of cinema and ...
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BUTLER, Robert Olen, Jr. American. Granite City, Illinois, 20 January 1945. Northwestern University, B.S. 1967; University of Iowa, M.A. 1969; postgraduate study at the New School for ...
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BERGER, Thomas (Louis) American. Cincinnati, Ohio, 20 July 1924. The University of Cincinnati, B.A. 1948; Columbia University, New York, 1950-51. Served in the United States Army, 1943-46. ...
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