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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vernon, Alex, 1967- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : St. Martin's Press, [2025].
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.