Philip Caputo
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in Chicago, Ill., The United States
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Ernest Hemingway, Ivan Turgenev, Sherwood Anderson
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December 2012
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A Rumor of War
42 editions
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1977
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Acts of Faith
13 editions
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2005
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The Longest Road: Overland in Search of America, from Key West to the Arctic Ocean
10 editions
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2013
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Crossers
15 editions
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2009
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The Voyage
9 editions
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1999
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Hunter's Moon: A Novel in Stories
7 editions
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2019
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Ghosts of Tsavo: Stalking the Mystery Lions of East Africa
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2002
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Horn of Africa
18 editions
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1980
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Some Rise by Sin
6 editions
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2017
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10,000 Days of Thunder: A History of the Vietnam War
5 editions
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2005
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“Before you leave here, Sir, you’re going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.”
― A Rumor Of War
― A Rumor Of War
“Directly overhead the Milky Way was as distinct as a highway across the sky. The constellations shown brilliantly, except the north, where they were blurred by the white sheets of the Aurora. Now shimmering like translucent curtains drawn over the windows of heaven, the northern lights suddenly streaked across a million miles of space to burst in silent explosions. Fountains of light, pale greens, reds, and yellows, showered the stars and geysered up to the center of the sky, where they pooled to form a multicolored sphere, a kind of mock sun that gave light but no heat, pulsing, flaring, and casting beams in all directions, horizon to horizon. Below, the wolves howled with midnight madness and the two young men stood in speechless awe. Even after the spectacle ended, the Aurora fading again to faint shimmer, they stood as silent and transfixed as the first human beings ever to behold the wonder of creation. Starkmann felt the diminishment that is not self-depreciation but humility; for what was he and what was Bonnie George? Flickers of consciousness imprisoned in lumps of dust; above them a sky ablaze with the Aurora, around them a wilderness where wolves sang savage arias to a frozen moon.”
― Indian Country
― Indian Country
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