Peace is a shy thing: the life and art of Tim O'Brien

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"Featuring over one hundred interviews with family, friends, peers, and others--not to mention countless exchanges with Tim O'Brien himself--[this book] provides a nearly day-by-day ... account of O'Brien's thirteen months as an infantryman in Vietnam and gives equal diligence to reconstructing O'Brien's writing process. [It] explores the life and journey that turned O'Brien into a literary icon and a household name. It includes an unpublished short story about O'Brien from a college girlfriend, documentation of his comical involvement with the Washington Post's coverage of Watergate, and a 1989 attic exchange between American and Vietnamese writers on the eve of the publication of O'Brien's most beloved book, The Things They Carried, years before the two countries normalized relations"--
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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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O'Brien, Tim, -- 1946- -- Criticism and interpretation
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Veterans -- United States -- Biography
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Peace is a shy thing : the life and art of Tim O'Brien
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Peace is a shy thing
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the life and art of Tim O'Brien
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975
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