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Peace Is a Shy Thing: The Life and Art of Tim O'Brien

Peace Is a Shy Thing: The Life and Art of Tim O'Brien - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Alex VernonPublish date:2025-05-27Pages:560
Language:EnglishPublisher:St. Martin's PressISBN-13:9781250358493ISBN-10:1250358493UPC:9781250358493Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, Wars & ConflictsBook Topic:Vietnam WarSize:9.44 x 6.45 x 1.47 inchesWeight:1.7218Product ID:SCT25Z3B3R

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 interviews with family, friends, peers, and others--not to mention countless exchanges with Tim O'Brien himself--Peace...

Language:EnglishPublisher:St. Martin's PressISBN-13:9781250358493ISBN-10:1250358493UPC:9781250358493Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, Wars & ConflictsBook Topic:Vietnam WarSize:9.44 x 6.45 x 1.47 inchesWeight:1.7218Product ID:SCT25Z3B3R
From Prairie Village, Kansas, ALEX VERNON graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point (the only literature major in his class of over a thousand), served in combat as a tank platoon leader in the Persian Gulf War, and earned a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. The recipient of an Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book Award and a National Endowment of the...
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

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