Dog Soldiers (novel)

This article is about the 1974 novel. For other uses of Dog Soldiers, see Dog Soldiers (disambiguation).
Dog Soldiers
First edition cover
AuthorRobert Stone
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction
PublisherHoughton Mifflin
Publication date
1974
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint
Pages342
ISBN0-395-18481-9
OCLC948202
813.54 74.11441
LC ClassPS3569.T6 418
Preceded byHall of Mirrors 
Followed byA Flag For Sunrise 

Dog Soldiers is a novel by Robert Stone, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1974. The story features American journalist John Converse, a Vietnam correspondent during the war, Merchant Marine sailor Ray Hicks, Converse's wife Marge, and their involvement in a heroin deal gone bad. It shared the 1975 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction with The Hair of Harold Roux by Thomas Williams (split award).[1][2] Dog Soldiers was named by Time magazine one of the 100 best English-language novels, 1923 to 2005.[3]

The book was adapted into the 1978 film Who'll Stop the Rain starring Nick Nolte with a script co-written by Stone.[4]

  1. ^ "National Book Awards – 1975" Archived September 9, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-29.
    (With essays by Jessica Hagedorn and others (five) from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.)
  2. ^ Allard, Sam (28 July 2011). "Thomas Williams' 'The Hair of Harold Roux' deserves a rousing readership". cleveland.com. Retrieved 2011-07-30.
  3. ^ Grossman, Lev; Lacayo, Richard (2005-10-16). "All-Time 100 Novels: The Complete List". Time. Archived from the original on October 19, 2005.
  4. ^ Who'll Stop the Rain at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
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