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Dog Soldiers - by Robert Stone (Paperback)

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  • Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction"A dark descendant of Conrad's and Hemmingway's adventure stories...Goes hell-for-leather across the landscape.
  • National Book Awards (Fiction) 1975 1st Winner
  • Author(s): Robert Stone
  • 352 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Historical

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In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he'll find action - and profit - by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go horribly wrong for him. Dog Soldiers perfectly captures the underground mood of America in the 1970s, when amateur drug dealers and hippies encountered profiteering cops and professional killers - and the price of survival was dangerously high.



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Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction

"A dark descendant of Conrad's and Hemmingway's adventure stories...Goes hell-for-leather across the landscape." -New York Times Book Review

In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he'll find action - and profit - by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go horribly wrong for him. Dog Soldiers perfectly captures the underground mood of America in the 1970s, when amateur drug dealers and hippies encountered profiteering cops and professional killers - and the price of survival was dangerously high.



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"A dark descendant of Conrad's and Hemmingway's adventure stories...Goes hell-for-leather across the landscape." - New York Times Book Review

"Compulsively readable...As forcefully as any novel one can think of, this novel conveys the cynicism, the terror, and the appetite for new experiences that have marked recent years." - The New Yorker

"Stone's tale of heroin, smugglers, and moral striving remains one of the most relevant American crime novels ever written." - Crime Reads

"Dog Soldiers is so good, so interesting and series and funny and frightening, so absorbing, so impressive, so masterful...It is splendid, terrific action suspense." - Esquire

"A fastpaced, action-fraught novel." - Ploughshares

"A feverish novel of suspense, Dog Soldiers ranks alongside the work of Michael Herr and Tim O'Brien as an impassioned reckoning with how the Vietnam War changed America." - Madison Smartt Bell

"The most important novel of the year." - Washington Post


Dimensions (Overall): 8.3 Inches (H) x 5.5 Inches (W) x 1.0 Inches (D)
Weight: .7 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 352
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Historical
Publisher: Ecco Press
Theme: 20th Century
Format: Paperback
Author: Robert Stone
Language: English
Street Date: April 2, 1997
TCIN: 90951149
UPC: 9780395860250
Item Number (DPCI): 247-03-5543
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Q: Who is the protagonist of Dog Soldiers?

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  • A: The protagonist is John Converse, a small-time journalist involved in a drug deal in Saigon.

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Q: What is the main theme of the book?

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  • A: The book explores the underground mood of America during the 1970s, focusing on drug dealing and survival.

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Q: What notable award did this book win?

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  • A: Dog Soldiers won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1975.

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Q: What historical period does the novel depict?

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