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Tim O'Brien
Tim O'Brien received the 1979 National Book Award in Fiction for Going After Cacciato. His novel The Things They Carried won France's prestigious Prix de Meilleur Livre Étranger and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. His novels In the Lake of the Woods and Tomcat in Love, were national bestsellers.
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Going After Cacciato
Written by Tim O'Brien
Broadway Books | Trade Paperback | September 1999
$16.00/22.00(Canada) | 978-0-7679-0442-1 (0-7679-0442-7)
A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE THINGS THEY CARRIED
"To call Going After Cacciato a novel about war is like calling Moby-Dick a novel about whales."
So wrote The New York Times of Tim O'Brien's now classic novel of Vietnam. Winner of the 1979 National Book Award, Going... Read more
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If I Die in a Combat Zone
Written by Tim O'Brien
Broadway Books | Trade Paperback | September 1999
$16.00/22.00(Canada) | 978-0-7679-0443-8 (0-7679-0443-5)
A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE THINGS THEY CARRIED
Before writing his award-winning Going After Cacciato, Tim O'Brien gave us this intensely personal account of his year as a foot soldier in Vietnam. The author takes us with him to experience combat from behind an infantryman's rifle... Read more
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Northern Lights
Written by Tim O'Brien
Broadway Books | Trade Paperback | September 1999
$15.00/18.00(Canada) | 978-0-7679-0441-4 (0-7679-0441-9)
A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE THINGS THEY CARRIED
Originally published in 1975, Tim O'Brien's debut novel demonstrates the emotional complexity and enthralling narrative tension that later earned him the National Book Award. At its core is the relationship between two brothers: one who went to Vietnam... Read more
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The Nuclear Age
Written by Tim O'Brien
Penguin Books | Trade Paperback | December 1996
$16.00/20.00(Canada) | 978-0-14-025910-0 (0-14-025910-4)
The Nuclear Age is about one man's slightly insane attempt to come to terms with a dilemma that confronts us all—a little thing called The Bomb. The year is 1995, and William Cowling has finally found the courage to meet his fears head-on. Cowling's courage takes the form of a hole that... Read more
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Tomcat in Love
Written by Tim O'Brien
Broadway Books | Trade Paperback | September 1999
$16.00/19.00(Canada) | 978-0-7679-0204-5 (0-7679-0204-1)
A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE THINGS THEY CARRIED
In this wildly funny, brilliantly inventive novel, Tim O'Brien has created the ultimate character for our times. Thomas Chippering, a 6'6" professor of linguistics, is a man torn between two obsessions: the desperate need to win back his... Read more
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