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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About the Book

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.

Book Synopsis

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

Review Quotes

"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

Specifications

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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