|
|
Philip Caputo ListingsIf you cannot find what you want on this page, then please use our search feature to search all our listings. Click on Title to view full description
|
|
|
1 |
Philip Caputo Exiles
Knopf 1997 0679450386 / 9780679450382 Hardcover Like New
"New Hardcover with dust jacket, clean, tight, unmarked, (Fine with price clipped Dust Jacket), Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1997, First Edition, BOOKPLATE SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON THE HALF-TITLE PAGE. collection of shorter fiction, sends the reader on a tripartite adventure. First to suburban Connecticut, where a young blue-collar man on the way to his mother's funeral falls in with an upper-crust couple who lavish attention on him and pull him into unexpected dilemmas. Then to Australia's Torres Strait, where a charismatic but troublesome stranger washes ashore into the thick of a struggle for a tiny island's very identity.Then to Vietnam where a squad of misfits plunge deep into the jungle in search of the body of their mess sergeant, who has been carried off by a tiger. No matter the backdrop, Philip Caputo's ear for the vernacular is unerring, while his interrogation of human nature--of the deceptions we inflict on ourselves and others--is unflinching. Exiles affirms the remarkable range, ID: mon0000139070"
Price:
23.52 USD
|
|
Add to Shopping Cart |
|
|
|
|
|
2 |
Philip Caputo Horn of Africa: A Novel
Holt Rinehart & Winston 1980 0030421365 / 9780030421365 Hardcover Very Good
"tight binding, First Edition, light rubbing of erdges, price-clipped dust jacket has light rubbing, creasing,and chipping, slight sunning() When Vietnam veteran and foreign correspondent Charlie Gage is recruited by the shadowy Thomas Colfax to assist with something called Operation Atropos, he has no idea he is about to be enlisted for guerilla warfare in northeast Africa. Once he realizes he’s a mercenary, however, he is not at all concerned. Ever since his young secretary was killed by a grenade at their bureau office in Beirut a couple of years before, he has lost all volition. Which is why he so readily capitulates not only to Colfax, but also, and more dangerously so, to every command of Jeremy Nordstrand, the mystical megalomaniac determined to achieve greatness on their seemingly suicidal mission. Set in the forsaken yet exotic deserts of Ethiopia, Horn of Africa is a vividly detailed and masterfully plotted novel chronicling a broken man’s struggle for salvation and inner ID: mon0000105718"
Price:
7.82 USD
|
|
Add to Shopping Cart |
|
|
|
|
|
|
3 |
Philip Caputo Horn of Africa: A Novel
Holt Rinehart & Winston 1980 0030421365 / 9780030421365 Hardcover Very Good
"First edition, tight binding, light rubbing of edges, light creasing and chipping of dust jacket, black mark on front flap() When Vietnam veteran and foreign correspondent Charlie Gage is recruited by the shadowy Thomas Colfax to assist with something called Operation Atropos, he has no idea he is about to be enlisted for guerilla warfare in northeast Africa. Once he realizes he’s a mercenary, however, he is not at all concerned. Ever since his young secretary was killed by a grenade at their bureau office in Beirut a couple of years before, he has lost all volition. Which is why he so readily capitulates not only to Colfax, but also, and more dangerously so, to every command of Jeremy Nordstrand, the mystical megalomaniac determined to achieve greatness on their seemingly suicidal mission. Set in the forsaken yet exotic deserts of Ethiopia, Horn of Africa is a vividly detailed and masterfully plotted novel chronicling a broken man’s struggle for salvation and inner freedom in the ID: mon0000105744"
Price:
7.82 USD
|
|
Add to Shopping Cart |
|
|
|
|
|
|
4 |
Philip Caputo Horn of Africa: A Novel
Holt Rinehart & Winston 1980 0030421365 / 9780030421365 Hardcover Good
"First Edition, solid binding, ink name on front free endpaper, light soiling, price-clipped dust jacket has light creasing, and chpping, 1/2 ID: mon0000105892"
Price:
7.82 USD
|
|
Add to Shopping Cart |
|
|
|
|
|
|
5 |
Philip Caputo Horn of Africa: A Novel
Holt Rinehart & Winston 1980 0030421365 / 9780030421365 Hardcover Very Good
"First Edition, tight binding, light rubbing of edges, price-clipped dust jacket has light creasing, chipping and soiling() When Vietnam veteran and foreign correspondent Charlie Gage is recruited by the shadowy Thomas Colfax to assist with something called Operation Atropos, he has no idea he is about to be enlisted for guerilla warfare in northeast Africa. Once he realizes he’s a mercenary, however, he is not at all concerned. Ever since his young secretary was killed by a grenade at their bureau office in Beirut a couple of years before, he has lost all volition. Which is why he so readily capitulates not only to Colfax, but also, and more dangerously so, to every command of Jeremy Nordstrand, the mystical megalomaniac determined to achieve greatness on their seemingly suicidal mission. Set in the forsaken yet exotic deserts of Ethiopia, Horn of Africa is a vividly detailed and masterfully plotted novel chronicling a broken man’s struggle for salvation and inner freedom in the m ID: mon0000105893"
Price:
7.82 USD
|
|
Add to Shopping Cart |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
7 |
Philip Caputo Means of Escape
HarperCollins Publishers 1991 0060183128 / 9780060183127 Hardcover Very Good
"'() In his first work of nonfiction since A Rumor of War, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author Philip Caputo eloquently relates his years as a foreign correspondent covering a world at war. Means of Escape sold more than 30,000 HarperCollins (1991) hardcover copies.'''' ID: mon0000085365"
Price:
7.82 USD
|
|
Add to Shopping Cart |
|
|
|
