Don O'Brien, Author, Dan O'Brien, Author Scribner Book Company $21.5 (253p) ISBN 978-0-684-80368-5
A conflict between developers and environmentalists in South Dakota's Black Hills provides the crucible through which two characters must pass in order to become reacquainted with their own better selves. At the center of O'Brien's (Eminent Domain)...
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Dan O'Brien, Author . Random $22.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-375-50325-2
Veteran writer, rancher and environmentalist O'Brien (The Rites of Autumn) deftly chronicles his decision to restore buffalo to his 1,000-plus-acre South Dakota ranch for the first time in more than a century. Some 20 years before this life-chang
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Dan O'Brien, Author . Lyons $21.95 (281p) ISBN 978-1-59228-244-9
In this sequel to The Contract Surgeon
, the winner of the 2000 Western Heritage Award for Fiction, O'Brien resumes his fictionalized biography of renowned physician Valentine T. McGillycuddy. Singled out for his experience among the Sioux—
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Dan O'Brien, Author Washington Square Press $6.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-67609-4
In a ``fast-moving tale of murder and revenge,'' Tom McVay, a Vietnam vet, travels to the Black Hills of South Dakota to track down and kill a drug dealer who murdered his brother in Toledo. PW called this ``a lean and suspenseful novel.'' (Dec.)
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Dan O'Brien, Author University of Iowa Press $19.5 (135p) ISBN 978-0-87745-170-9
Winner of the 1986 Iowa Short Fiction Award, O'Brien demonstrates in this collection of 10 short stories that he is a capable and lyrical writer. The metaphors that resonate below the surfaces of his tales render them enjoyable, satisfying and...
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Dan O'Brien, Author Anchor Books $9.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-385-26559-1
The author tells here of traveling in the company of his two hunting dogs and Dolly, a young peregrine falcon, from the Montana Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of Mexico. ``This is an engaging story, one to be savored by animal lovers and those...
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Dan O'Brien, Author Atlantic Monthly Press $21.95 (374p) ISBN 978-0-87113-441-7
In this eminently readable, often moving novel, O'Brien ( Rites of Autumn ) captures the ambience of the contemporary West, fashioning characters who take hold of the reader's imagination and don't let go. Harneyok , S.Dak., is a small town on the...
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Dan O'Brien, Author Avon Books $10 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-71702-6
O'Brien's novel captures the ambience of the contemporary West, focusing on Harney, S. D., where harsh conditions challenge inhabitants. (Sept.)
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Dan O'Brien, Author Lyons Press $22.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-55821-456-9
O'Brien is the author of three novels (most recently, Brendan Prairie), a short-story collection and a popular nonfiction book, The Rites of Autumn. A resident of Rapid City, S.D., he is also an aficionado of falconry. Here, he explores his lifelong
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Dan O'Brien, Author Lyons Press $24.95 (324p) ISBN 978-1-55821-932-8
Humanizing heroes on both sides of the conflict, O'Brien reimagines the capture and tragically suspicious death of Crazy Horse, the great Sioux war chief, while in the custody of the U.S. Army in 1877. O'Brien's (Equinox) eighth book is a sensitive...
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Dan O'Brien, Author, Marjorie Braman, Editor, Carl Navarre, Editor Atlantic Monthly Press $17.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-87113-245-1
The rite began when the author and two other biologists released (``hacked'') four captive-bred peregrine falcon chicks on a cliff in the Montana Rockies. Within 24 hours, a golden eagle had taken three, and O'Brien, short-story writer and novelist (
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Dan O'Brien. Hanging Loose (SPD, dist.), $18 trade paper (132p) ISBN 978-1-934909-35-5
In this gut-wrenching, hardboiled collection, poet and playwright O'Brien (The Body of an American) focuses on Pulitzer prize-winning photojournalist and war correspondent Paul Watson, a witness to atrocities and violence in Northern Africa, the...
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