A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain – Robert Olen Butler

A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain. By Robert Olen Butler. New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1992. First edition, stated. Unclipped dust jacket, very good. Signed and inscribed by Butler at front free endpaper to Kurt, dated March 31, 1992.

Short stores of fictional narratives depicting unspoken legacies of the Vietnam War, the experiences and memories of Vietnamese expatriates living in their adopted home of America.

Robert Olen Butler (January 20, 1945 – ) is an American fiction writer of short fiction and novels. This work by Butler was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1993. Butler served in Vietnam in 1971 as an army linguist.