O'Brien, Tim

Summary: Heroic young men carry the emotional weight of their lives to war in Vietnam in a patchwork account of a modern journey into the heart of darkness

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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 1998

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O'Brien, Tim

Summary: An American Master returns: The author of The Things They Carried delivers his first new novel in two decades, a brilliant and rollicking odyssey, in which a bank robbery by a disgraced journalist sparks a cross-country chase through a nation corroded by delusion. At 11:34 a.m. one Saturday in August 2019, Boyd Halverson strode from his battered Buick LeSabre and entered Community National Bank...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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O'Brien, Tim

Summary: John Wade, a senatorial candidate, is accused of participating in a massacre during the Vietnam War. Hounded by the press, he flees with his wife to a cottage and his wife disappears. Did she desert him, or did he kill her? By the author of Going After Cacciato.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence 1994

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O'Brien, Tim

Summary: Even as he plots revenge on his wife for abandoning him for another man Thomas Chippering, a professor of linguistics cannot free himself of his obsession with women. He makes a pass at a student who blackmails him into giving her good marks. A look at a womanizer.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 1998

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O'Brien, Tim

Summary: "Best-selling author Tim O'Brien shares wisdom from a life in letters, lessons learned in wartime, and the challenges, humor, and rewards of raising two sons"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019

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O'Brien, Tim

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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1973

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O'Brien, Tim

Summary: O'Brien's searing memoir of his years as a soldier in Vietnam takes readers with him through the ghostly ambiguities of manhood and morality in a war gone terribly wrong.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2013

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O'Brien, Tim

Summary: n O'Brien's dynamic first novel, a Vietnam vet and his brother vie for the same gal, a native of their dwindling Minnesota hometown. Culminating in a disastrous road trip which ends with the men skiing home through the wilderness, "Northern Lights" spawned themes that would become the author's hallmarks for future works.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 1999

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O'Brien, Tim

Summary: "In the jungles of Indochina, Private Cacciato decides to lay down his rifle and embark on a quixotic walk to Paris, leaving in his wake a trail of M&M candies and a platoon intent on bringing him back to the war--and to reality. '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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 1999

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O'Brien, Tim

Contents: Kick me when I'm down -- River of blood -- One drop of rain -- When you come back down -- Out on the rolling sea -- I like the way you cook -- How come I ain't dead -- Love and laughter -- Love is pleasin' -- Think about last night -- Don't be surprised -- First days of fall -- When there's no one around.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sugar Hill 1997

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O'Brien, Tim

Summary: On a quest to settle a score with the man who destroyed his life, Boyd Halverson robs a bank and takes a hostage.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023

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O'Brien, Tim

Summary: Old friends share memories of the past, current regrets, and future plans as they gather on a July weekend for the thirtieth reunion of Darton Hall College's class of 1969.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2002

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O'Brien, Tim

Summary: At the age of forty-nine, William Cowling decides to dig a gigantic hole in his backyard in order to protect himself and his family from "the very real threat of nuclear annihilation that everyone evades and denies."--Cover.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1985

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