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A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

by Robert Olen Butler

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kristenhazard in Reading through the Pulitzer Prize Winners : The pulizer prize fiction winners (Oct 9, 2008, 11:11pm)

... Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking) 1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons) 1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt) 1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf) 1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Up ...

hemlokgang in 1001 Books to read before you die : 1001 Short Stories you must read before you die -- let's have 'em! (Apr 4, 2008, 3:18pm)

A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler is one of my all-time favorite collections.

karspeak in 50 Book Challenge : karspeak's 30 for 2008 (Mar 17, 2008, 5:07pm)

5. Good Scent from a Strange Mountain Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of short stories about Vietnamese immigrants in Louisiana. I had mixed feelings on this book. I enjoyed the stories overall, but I felt that it was unrealistic that almost all of the characters serving as narrators were ...

Clea in Writer-readers : Books on writing that inspired you (Feb 11, 2008, 8:17pm)

... with the Dead. Rober Olen Butler's From Where you Dream is also quiet good. Because I enjoyed his pulitzer book A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain I took a chance on From Where You Dream and was impressed.

mydomino1978 in Book Fiend : A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (Dec 4, 2007, 12:40pm)

A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain was a collection of short stories, mostly focusing on Vietnamese immigrants and their memories and adjustments. I am not really a fan of short story collections, and that includes this one. I am not sure why it won a Pulitzer, but it isn't anything I would ...

SqueakyChu in List Five Books Parlour Game : Run to the hills (or the mountains)! (Jun 3, 2007, 10:48am)

... by Gao Xingjian In This Mountain by Jan Karon The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe --- Fascinating! A Good Scent From A Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler

kambrogi in 50 Book Challenge : I'm in... (Mar 22, 2007, 1:29am)

Robert Olen Butler, maybe? His collection, A Good Scent from A Strange Mountain is the best short fiction I have ever read.

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