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The Deuce, covering the conflicts of an Amerasian teenager, fits well with several of Butler's other novels. The Alleys of Eden (1981; see separate entry) is set half in Saigon and half in the U.S., and follows the relationship of an American soldier and a Vietnamese bar girl—in some ways paralleling a background relationship in The Deuce. Similarly, On Distant Ground (1985; see separate entry) follows an American soldier back to Saigon to find a former lover and her son in the closing days of the Republic of South Vietnam. Among Butler's works which do not...
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