Philip Caputo, Author . Knopf $26.95 (669p) ISBN 978-0-375-41166-3
Caputo's ambitious adventure novel, set against a backdrop of the Sudanese wars, makes for a dense, riveting update on Graham Greene's The Quiet American
. The American in this case is Douglas Braithwaite, a "mercenary with a conscience&#
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Philip Caputo, Author . Penguin/Chamberlain $19.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-59609-080-4
Caputo, best known for his groundbreaking Vietnam memoir, A Rumor of War
, uses his strong reporting skills to reconstruct the events of May 4, 1970, when National Guard troops in Ohio opened fire on Kent State University students during an antiwar...
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Philip Caputo, Author . S&S/Atheneum $22.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-689-86231-1
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and Vietnam veteran Caputo (A Rumor of War
) pulls no punches in this portrait of the Vietnam War. In his introduction, Caputo movingly depicts the war's impact on him personally, but also objectively...
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Philip Caputo, Author . Knopf $27.95 (447p) ISBN 978-0-375-41167-0
The fallout between public and private distinctions of war is just one of the border disputes haunting Pulitzer-winner Caputo's gorgeously stark latest. Inconsolable after the loss of his wife on 9/11, Gil Castle leaves New York for his family&#
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Philip Caputo, Author Henry Holt & Company $16 (356p) ISBN 978-0-8050-4695-3
20th-anniversary edition of Caputo's memoir of fighting in Vietnam. (Nov.)
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Philip Caputo, Author Vintage Books USA $17 (368p) ISBN 978-0-679-76838-8
Despite an absorbing premise, multiple adventures at sea and ashore, and a succession of colorful characters, this account by Pulitzer Prize-winner Caputo (Rumors of War) of a nautical voyage from Maine to the tropics, and from innocence to...
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Philip Caputo, Author Bantam Books $18.95 (419p) ISBN 978-0-553-05187-2
Caputo, best known as author of the much-admired A Rumor of War, returns to the Vietnam conflict in this powerfully conceived, ambitious novelthough this time it is seen as a cataclysm that casts its shadow over a man's life. He is Christian...
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Philip Caputo, Author HarperCollins Publishers $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-018360-8
Human savagery defies explanation in this ambitious, uneven thriller pairing a detective and a psychiatrist who try to ``solve'' a grisly mass murder/suicide in California. When chronic loser Duane Boggs opens fire on a school bus full of mostly...
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Philip Caputo, Author Alfred A. Knopf $25 (384p) ISBN 978-0-679-45038-2
Set in Connecticut, Australia and Vietnam, these three novellas by Caputo, author of the classic Vietnam memoir A Rumor of War, explore what it means to be an exile. Dante Panetta, a 24-year-old blue-collar worker in ""Standing In,"" meets wealthy,...
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Philip Caputo. Holt, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9446-6
Faced with a double dose of mortality—his father’s death and the prospect of turning 70—Caputo decided in 2011 to live a long-dormant dream. He hitched an Airstream trailer to a pickup truck and drove from the southernmost point of the continental U.
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Philip Caputo, Author, Paul Boehmer, Read by Tantor Media $49.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4001-1426-9
When Gil Castles wife is killed on September 11, he leaves his Wall Street job and moves to his cousins ranch in the San Rafael Valley to grieve in peace. But the solace and solitude he sought are rapidly shattered by his proximity to the border,...
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Philip Caputo, Author, Phillip Caputo, Author . National Geographic Adventure $27 (300p) ISBN 978-0-7922-6362-3
In a reasoned, researched account, Caputo (A Rumor of War; Horn of Africa; etc.) lays out the myths and scientific evidence surrounding a variety of maneless male lions in East Africa that prey on human beings. Two such lions gained infamy in 1898...
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Philip Caputo. Holt, $28 (368p) ISBN 978-1-62779-474-9
Expanding on several of the themes of his 2009 novel Crossers, Caputo’s latest is a thought-provoking story of unthinkable brutality. Former art history professor Timothy Riordan is the Catholic pastor of San Patricio, a remote village in the...
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Philip Caputo. Holt, $27 (288p) ISBN 978-1-62779-476-3
Caputo (Some Rise by Sin) probes violent masculinity and intergenerational conflicts, largely against the severe backdrop of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, in this decent but repetitive collection of interlinked stories. Father and sons quarrel...
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