In the Lake of the Woods
 Amazon.com Review: Tim O'Brien has been writing about Vietnam in one way or another ever since he served there as an infantryman in the late 1960s. His earliest work on the subject, If I Die in a Combat Zone, was an intensely personal memoir of his own [... more]
$15.00
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The Things They Carried (Spark Notes Edition)
Amazon.com Review: "They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. They carried shameful [... more]
$5.95
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July, July: A Novel
Who's to Blame: the Author or His Characters?: As the old saying goes, Tim O'Brien has nothing to say, but he says it very well. The setting is cliche'ed - the 30 year reunion of the Class of '69 full of stock characters left over from The Big Chill - [... more]
$26.00
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If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box me Up and Ship Me Home
Amazon.com Review: Over time, Tim O'Brien has used both art and artifice to shape his fictional accounts of Vietnam. Award-winning novels such as Going After Cacciato and The Things They Carried offer up a surreal view of the war: a soldier who decides [... more]
$6.99
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The Best American Short Stories of the Century (The Best ...
Amazon.com Review: At age 67, the perennially youthful John Updike may at last qualify as something of an elder statesman. But the Best American Short Stories annual--whose greatest hits package Updike has now assembled--is almost a generation older, [... more]
$40.00
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The Things They Carried
Amazon.com Review: "They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. They carried shameful [... more]
$25.70
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July, July
Who's to Blame: the Author or His Characters?: As the old saying goes, Tim O'Brien has nothing to say, but he says it very well. The setting is cliche'ed - the 30 year reunion of the Class of '69 full of stock characters left over from The Big Chill - [... more]
$16.50
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July, July: A Novel
Who's to Blame: the Author or His Characters?: As the old saying goes, Tim O'Brien has nothing to say, but he says it very well. The setting is cliche'ed - the 30 year reunion of the Class of '69 full of stock characters left over from The Big Chill - [... more]
$26.00
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Shades of Gray
Shades of the Civil War: Shades of Gray by Carolyn Reder is a wonderful book of learning how to respect people. Will's family has died. His mother died of a sickness, as did his sisters. His brother and father died in war. He moves in with the closet [... more]
$5.99
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The Nuclear Age
Amazon.com Review: In 1969, 22-year-old Tim O'Brien was drafted and eventually sent to Vietnam. In a memoir, If I Die in a Combat Zone and two works of fiction--Going After Cacciato and The Things They Carried--he revisited the war, crafting gut- [... more]
$15.00
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In the Lake of the Woods
Amazon.com Review: Tim O'Brien has been writing about Vietnam in one way or another ever since he served there as an infantryman in the late 1960s. His earliest work on the subject, If I Die in a Combat Zone, was an intensely personal memoir of his own [... more]
$21.95
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In the Lake of the Woods
Amazon.com Review: Tim O'Brien has been writing about Vietnam in one way or another ever since he served there as an infantryman in the late 1960s. His earliest work on the subject, If I Die in a Combat Zone, was an intensely personal memoir of his own [... more]
$14.95
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