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Exiles is filled with suspense. . . . Its a fascinating look at a placeduring a particular time but the intrigue transcends the locale. The ending isriveting and insidious. Which I mean as a compliment.Ann Beattie ElliotKrieger has created an original and wonderfully fallible hero in Lenny Spiegelan American college student who finds himself in Sweden among Viet Nam wardraft resisters. Passionate and complex Exiles is a story about the confusionand quest for identitypersonal political and moral.Hester Kaplan theauthor of Kinship Theory and The Edge of Marriage Sweden has granted asylumto American protesters against the Vietnam War. Some are draft resisters someare wanted by the FBI for acts of violence some are AWOL soldiers and someare actually working for the CIAor so everyone suspects. They are eking outtheir lives in Uppsala on a meager dole. Each thinks he would be a better groupspokesperson than Aronson who is the current leader of the Americans in exileand a wanted man in the United States. Into this maelstrom of conflicting egoscomes an innocent Lenny Spiegel who has volunteered to travel to Sweden tohelp. He physically resembles Aronson who borrows his passport. Until it isreturned Lenny is stuck in Uppsala where many believe he is Aronson. And Lennylearns that no good deed goes unpunished. Elliot Krieger won an O. HenryAward for his first published short story Cantor Pepper and he is theauthor of a book on Shakespeares comedies. He has served as a reporter andeditor at the Providence Journal and lives near Providence Rhode Island.Exiles is his first novel. «
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