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| Author | : Tim O'Brien |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins |
| Total Pages | : 259 |
| Release | : 2009-10-13 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0547420293 |
Download The Things They Carried Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. Taught everywhere—from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writing—it has become required reading for any American and continues to challenge readers in their perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, courage and fear and longing. The Things They Carried won France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize; it was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
| Author | : Tim O'Brien |
| Publisher | : Crown |
| Total Pages | : 354 |
| Release | : 2009-02-18 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307485501 |
Download Going After Cacciato Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 After Cacciato captures the peculiar mixture of horror and hallucination that marked this strangest of wars. In a blend of reality and fantasy, this novel tells the story of a young soldier who one day lays down his rifle and sets off on a quixotic journey from the jungles of Indochina to the streets of Paris. In its memorable evocation of men both fleeing from and meeting the demands of battle, Going After Cacciato stands as much more than just a great war novel. Ultimately it's about the forces of fear and heroism that do battle in the hearts of us all. Now with Extra Libris material, including a reader’s guide and bonus content
| Author | : Tim O'Brien |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin |
| Total Pages | : 403 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0618039708 |
Download Dad's Maybe Book Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In 2003, as an older father, O'Brien resolved to give his young sons what he wished his own father had given to him: a few scraps of paper signed "Love, Dad." Maybe a word of advice. Maybe a sentence or two about some long-ago Christmas Eve. Maybe some scattered glimpses of their aging father, a man they might never really know. In this book, O'Brien moves from soccer games to warfare to risqué lullabies, from alcoholism to magic shows to history lessons to bittersweet bedtime stories, but always returning to a father's soul-saving love for his sons. -- adapted from jacket
| Author | : Patrick A. Smith |
| Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 2012-10-22 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1617036781 |
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Interviews with the author of Going After Cacciato and The Things They Carried
| Author | : Patrick A. Smith |
| Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
| Total Pages | : 311 |
| Release | : 2012-10-22 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 1628468122 |
Download Conversations with Tim O'Brien Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
On the strength of a National Book Award for his novel Going After Cacciato and a widely acclaimed short-story cycle, The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien (b. 1946) cemented his reputation as one of the most compelling chroniclers of Vietnam—and, in the process, was cast as a “Vietnam writer.” But to confine O’Brien to a single piece of ground or a particular style is to ignore the broad sweep of a career spanning nearly four decades. In addition to detailed discussions of all of O’Brien’s work—a memoir, If I Die in a Combat Zone, and seven books of fiction—the sixteen interviews and profiles in Conversations with Tim O’Brien explore common themes, with subtle differences. Looming large is the experience of Vietnam and its influence as well as O’Brien’s youth in Minnesota and the expectations of a midwestern upbringing. Interviews allowed the writer to fully examine the shifting boundaries of truth and identity, memory, and imagination in fiction; the role of war in society; gender issues; and the craft of writing. O’Brien approaches each of these topics and a host of others with a directness and an evident passion that will resonate with both readers and prospective writers.
| Author | : Tim O'Brien |
| Publisher | : Crown |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2011-08-24 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0307762920 |
Download If I Die in a Combat Zone Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of The Things They Carried "One of the best, most disturbing, and most powerful books about the shame that was / is Vietnam." —Minneapolis Star and Tribune 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, to walk the minefields of My Lai, to crawl into the ghostly tunnels, and to explore the ambiguities of manhood and morality in a war gone terribly wrong. Beautifully written and searingly heartfelt, If I Die in a Combat Zone is a masterwork of its genre. Now with Extra Libris material, including a reader’s guide and bonus content.
| Author | : Tim O'Brien |
| Publisher | : HMH |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 2002-10-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0547523726 |
Download July, July Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A “perceptive, affectionate, and often very funny” novel about old college friends at a thirty-year reunion, by the author of The Things They Carried (Boston Herald). From a National Book Award winner who’s been called “the best American writer of his generation” (San Francisco Examiner), July, July tells the story of ten old friends who attended Darton Hall College together back in 1969, and now reunite for a summer weekend of dancing, drinking, flirting, reminiscing—and regretting. The three decades since graduation have brought marriage and divorce, children and careers, hopes deferred and replaced. This witty, heart-rending novel about men and women who came into adulthood at a moment when American ideals and innocence began to fade, a New York Times Notable Book, is “deeply satisfying” (O, the Oprah Magazine) and “almost impossible to put down” (Austin American-Statesman). “A symphony of American life.” —All Things Considered, NPR
| Author | : Larry Heinemann |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2010-05-05 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307539628 |
Download Paco's Story Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Paco Sullivan is the only man in Alpha Company to survive a cataclysmic Viet Cong attack on Fire Base Harriette in Vietnam. Everyone else is annihilated. When a medic finally rescues Paco almost two days later, he is waiting to die, flies and maggots covering his burnt, shattered body. He winds up back in the US with his legs full of pins, daily rations of Librium and Valium, and no sense of what to do next. One evening, on the tail of a rainstorm, he limps off the bus and into the small town of Boone, determined to find a real job and a real bed–but no matter how hard he works, nothing muffles the anguish in his mind and body. Brilliantly and vividly written, Paco’s Story–winner of a National Book Award–plunges you into the violence and casual cruelty of the Vietnam War, and the ghostly aftermath that often dealt the harshest blows.
| Author | : Nathaniel Fick |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 404 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0618773436 |
Download One Bullet Away Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An ex-Marine captain shares his story of fighting in a recon battalion in both Afghanistan and Iraq, beginning with his brutal training on Quantico Island and following his progress through various training sessions and, ultimately, conflict in the deadliest conflicts since the Vietnam War.
| Author | : Mark A. Heberle |
| Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
| Total Pages | : 375 |
| Release | : 2001-04 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0877457611 |
Download A Trauma Artist Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Based on recent conversations with Tim O'Brien, previously published interviews, and new readings of all his works -- including Tomcat in Love -- this book is the first study to concentrate on the role and representation of trauma as the central focus of all O'Brien's works. Book jacket.
