Countrymen of Bones

Literature & Fiction

BUTLER, Robert Olen

Contemporary

Vintage

'Perhaps my fate was sealed when I sold my three-year-old sister-' And so began Amy Dickerson's lifelong fascination with the art and exhilaration of the sale-Ambitious, winsome, and ceaselessly charismatic, Amy is the star employee of an auction house catering to the shopping pheromones of the rich and powerful. She turns the pitch into her creative art, using her abundant talents; wit, charm, knowledge, and above all an outstanding ability to read people and intuit their deepest desires. Her customers are intoxicated with love for the objects that define them and thrilled by the act of making them their own. And sometimes, such as when a mysterious man locks eyes with her as she give 'fair warning' before sounding the auction gavel, that object is Amy herself. From one of the most versatile and highly acclaimed writers of fiction, Fair Warning is a sweeping, fast-moving and alluringly intimate meditation on the possibility of love in a world where everyone must own or be owned.

Fair Warning

They Whisper

A collection of stories about Vietnamese immigrants living in Louisiana as they face love, loss, despair, and the challenges and conflicts of a new life

A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

United States

Penguin??Books

The extraordinary new novel about Vietnam. Stunning, powerful and eloquent.

The Alleys of Eden

Ballantine Books

The harsh Arizona desert, at the time of the first atomic bomb test during the 1940s, becomes the backdrop for a love triangle between physicist Lloyd Coulter, archaeologist Darrell Reeves, and Anna, the woman they both love

Sun Dogs

Wilson Hand, haunted by memories of his ex-wife's suicide and his captivity with the Viet Cong, leaves his urban industrial investigation business to become a troubleshooter for an Alaskan oil company

On Distant Ground

In the spring of 1975, Army Intelligence captain David Fleming, about to be court-martialed for having kidnapped and released a Viet Cong prisoner, sets out to find the son he believes he has sired in Saigon

In 1932 Wabash, Illinois, Deborah and Jeremy Cole, estranged since the death of their daughter, try to work out their grief through involvement in family concerns and the labor movement

Wabash

In the spring of 1975, Army Intelligence captain David Fleming, about to be court-martialed for having kidnapped and released a Viet Cong prisoner, sets out to find the son he believes he has sired in Saigon

Alfred.A. Knopf

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Countrymen of Bones

Fair Warning

They Whisper

A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

The Alleys of Eden

Countrymen of Bones

Sun Dogs

On Distant Ground

Wabash

On Distant Ground