Peace is a shy thing : the life and art of Tim O'Brien /
The first literary biography of Tim O'Brien, the preeminent American writer of the war in Vietnam and one of the best writers of his generation, drawing on never-before-seen materials and original interviews. "Vietnam made me a writer." Tim O'Brien. Featuring over one hundred in...
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New York :
St. Martin's Press,
[2025].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Collision
- Busy Timmy
- Sweetheart of the Sông Krong Kno
- Soapbox
- Adventures in amity and melancholy
- Greeting
- In the mill
- Rubicon days
- Into the combat zone
- May was the cruelest month
- The summer of '69
- Gator days
- Part II. Returnee
- Lines of departure (1)
- Combat coda : if I die in a combat zone, box me up and ship me home
- Lines of departure (2)
- Juvenilia
- A man of mythic realism : Northern lights
- Endings and beginnings
- Over the hill : Going after Cacciato
- Apprenticeship's end
- Part III. Dreams that suppose awakenings : The nuclear age
- How it mostly was
- A work of fiction : The things they carried
- When peace is hell
- Double consummation and causal transportation : In the lake of the woods
- Tomcat in love : Tomcat in love
- Welcome to Texas : July, July
- Family man and elder statesman : Dad's maybe book
- This is us : America fantastica.