The deuce / a novel by Robert Olen Butler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Butler, Robert Olen.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multiracial people--Fiction.

Multiracial people.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

303 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Owl book edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Henry Holt and Company, [1994]

Summary:

In The Deuce, Pulitzer Prize-winner Robert Olen Butler's searing sixth novel, the intertwined legacies of Vietnam and America are explored in the startlingly fresh voice of a young Amerasian boy, Tony Hatcher. At age six, Tony is snatched away from Saigon and his bar-girl mother and brought to the United States by his American father, a former Army officer, not a district attorney. For ten years, Tony grows up as ill at ease amid the affluence of the new jersey shore as he had been as one of the despised mixed-blood 'children of dust' in Saigon. And in America he has not escaped the stress and the stigma of embodying two seemingly irreconcilable cultures; that conflict rages within him, particularly as he becomes a teenager.

Notes:

"Reissued in cloth and paper in 1994 by Henry Holt and Company"--Title page verso.

"An Owl book."

ISBN:

0805031979

9780805031973

0805031391

9780805031393

OCLC:

28710640