BUTLER, ROBERT OLEN — Countrymen of Bones
New York, NY: Horizon Press, 1983. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0818006390. SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed by the author on the title page. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Goood+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly crisp and clean, but has some light wear to the spine ends and corners. "Robert Olen Butler is the author of 12 novels and six short story collections, including A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, which won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In a review for the Guardian newspaper, renowned author Claire Messud wrote, "The book has attracted such acclaim not simply because it is beautifully and powerfully written, but because it convincingly pulls off an immense imaginative risk. Butler has not entered the significant and ever-growing canon of Vietnam-related fiction (he has long been a member) he has changed its composition forever." Butler began writing novels on the Long Island Rail Road while working as a publicist for Fairchild Publications. "Every word of my first four published novels was written on a legal pad, by hand, on my lap, on the Long Island Rail Road as I commuted back and forth from Sea Cliff to Manhattan," Butler has said of his early writing. " (from Wikipedia); Signed by Author. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .
