{"product_id":"exiles-book-james-joyce-9780140481266","title":"Exiles","description":"With Exiles, his first collection of shorter fiction, the author of the universally acclaimed, best-selling memoir A Rumor of War (It will make the strongest among us weep, wrote John Gregory Dunne) sends the reader on a tripartite adventure. \u003cbr\u003eFirst 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. \u003cbr\u003eThen 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. \u003cbr\u003eThen to Vietnam--vintage Caputo territory--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. \u003cbr\u003eNo 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, the freedom from genre, of a writer whose meditations on the love and hate of war were hailed by William Styron as among the most eloquent I have read in modern literature. \u003cp\u003eFrom the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49778168365329,"sku":"GOR002936877","price":3.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50096915317009,"sku":"GOR003089369","price":3.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52964863312145,"sku":"GOR002132270","price":3.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0140481265.jpg?v=1751195350","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/exiles-book-james-joyce-9780140481266","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}