Hayslip, Le Ly, with Wurts, Jay. When Heaven and Earth Changed Places. Doubleday: 1989; New Vintage/Anchor Books Edition: 2017 (replaces Penguin-Putnam Edition: 2003). Coauthored story of a Vietnamese peasant girls wartime experience and return to her native country in 1986. Released in 1993 as the Oliver Stone/Warner Bros film, "Heaven & Earth"; first serial to Los Angeles Times, Detroit Free Press; paperback to NAL; selected by Book-of-the-Month Club, Quality Paperback, and History book clubs; Readers Digest Condensation: Todays Best Nonfiction, 1989; foreign rights to Britain, Japan, France, Germany, Italy, Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan, Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, and Greece; cover review, Sunday NY Times Book Review, 6/25/89; also selected by NY Times as one of 1989's Fifty Notable Books of the Year, PEN-West as Best Nonfiction of 1989, NY Public Library as one of the Top Ten Nonfiction books of 1989, by Brandeis University for its National Womens Committee Book/Author award, by American Library Association as one of 1990's "Best Books for Young Adults," and by Quality Paperback Books Club as nominee for 1990's "New Visions" prize.
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