Dog Soldiers (First UK Edition, Association copy, inscribed by the author to his bibliographer)
by Robert Stone
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- Signed
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- ISBN 10
- 0436496801
- ISBN 13
- 9780436496806
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About This Item
Winner of the National Book Award and basis for the violent 1978 neo-noir film "Who'll Stop the Rain," directed by Karel Reisz and starring Nick Nolte and Tuesday Weld.
Fine in an about Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket spine panel moderately faded, with a small chip to the laminate at the bottom right corner of the front panel.
Synopsis
Robert Stone is an American novelist. His work is typically characterized by psychological complexity, political concerns, and dark humor. The novel, Dog Soldiers , won the National Book Award for fiction in 1975. It is considered an action-thriller and a meditation on the manner in which the Vietnam experience permeated America. The story is set in the days of the Vietnam War, in Saigon. A journalist named John Converse is planning to find action and profit by getting involved in a considerable drug deal, smuggling 3 kilo’s of heroin into the States. Before long, his scheme fails and goes wrong, extremely, and terribly wrong. Stone attempts to, and succeeds in capturing perfectly the mood of America during the 1970’s with this elaborate and substantial novel.
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- Bookseller
- Royal Books, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 160592
- Title
- Dog Soldiers (First UK Edition, Association copy, inscribed by the author to his bibliographer)
- Author
- Robert Stone
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Unknown
- ISBN 10
- 0436496801
- ISBN 13
- 9780436496806
- Publisher
- Secker and Warburg
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1975
- Keywords
- Books into Film | Association Copy | National Book Award | Mystery and Crime
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books into Film; National Book Award; Mystery and Crime; Association Copy;
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