Tim O'Brien, Author , read by Jay O. Sanders. Houghton Mifflin Audio $33 (0p) ISBN 978-0-618-25812-3
Like The Big Chill, National Book Award winner O'Brien's latest novel is about a group of college students from the radical days of the late 1960s. Assembled years later, the friends and acquaintances go through the usual motions of...
READ FULL REVIEW
Tim O'Brien, Author Penguin Books $12.95 (251p) ISBN 978-0-14-014773-5
Weapons and good-luck charms carried by U.S. soldiers in Vietnam here represent survival, lost innocence and the war's interminable legacy. ``O'Brien's meditations--on war and memory, on darkness and light--suffuse the entire work with a kind of...
READ FULL REVIEW
Tim O'Brien, Author Penguin Books $15 (303p) ISBN 978-0-14-025094-7
A politician's career is ruined overnight by revelations of his wartime participation in a village massacre in Vietnam while his personal life is undone by the sudden dissappearance of his wife. (Sept.)
READ FULL REVIEW
Tim O'Brien, Author Broadway Books $26 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7679-0202-1
All of O'Brien's previous six novels, except perhaps The Nuclear Age, have a Vietnam War experience at their core. Men (and women) at war--and warring with war's aftermath--are themes that have sustained O'Brien's gifted narrative rushes and his...
READ FULL REVIEW
Tim O'Brien, Author, Tim C'Brien, Author Houghton Mifflin Co $21.95 (306p) ISBN 978-0-395-48889-8
O'Brien ( Going After Cacciato ; The Things They Carried ) is trying desperately to escape from Vietnam--and failing. In this beautifully written, often haunting, but ultimately disappointing book, that conflict continues to drag at the life of John
READ FULL REVIEW
Martin Clancy and Tim O’Brien. Prometheus, $26 (375p) ISBN 978-1-61614-648-1
Clancy and O’Brien, former Emmy and Silver Gavel Award–winning journalists with ABC News, present a multifaceted look at murder cases at the highest levels of law. Although the book is a serious study of evolving death penalty jurisprudence,...
READ FULL REVIEW
Tim O’Brien, read by Bryan Cranston. Brilliance Audio, unabridged, seven CDs, 8 hrs., $19.99 ISBN 978-1-4558-5159-1
O’Brien’s collection of short stories, which he describes as fiction, is one of the most seminal works about the Vietnam War. It follows grunts trudging through hostile country and describes, as one might surmise from the title, the things they...
READ FULL REVIEW
Tim O’Brien. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $28 (286p) ISBN 978-0-618-03970-8
This tender memoir begins in 2003, when 58-year-old novelist O’Brien (The Things They Carried) has a one-year-old son and another one on the way. In the format of letters to his sons, he shares the joys of fatherhood, which are muted by the prospect
READ FULL REVIEW
Tim O’Brien. Mariner, $32 (464p) ISBN 978-0-06-331850-2
Hunter S. Thompson meets Sacha Baron Cohen in this amusing and alarming road trip to the center of America’s mendacious heart. In what O’Brien has claimed will be his final novel, the National Book Award winner (The Things They Carried) chronicles...
READ FULL REVIEW
ARTICLES
