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Peace Is a Shy Thing: The Life and Art of Tim O'Brien
| Author: |
Vernon, Alex |
| Binding: |
Hardcover
|
| List Price: | $49.00 |
| Our Price: | $6.65 CAD |
| Qty Avail: | 304 |
| ISBN: | 9781250358493 |
| Publisher: | St. Martin's Press |
| Language: | English |
| Page Count: | 546 |
| Publication Date: | 5/27/2025 |
| Size: | 9.50" l x 6.50" w x 1.00" |
| Series: | N/A |
The first literary biography of Tim O'Brien, the preeminent American writer of Vietnam War and one of the best writers of his generation, with never-before-seen materials and interviews.
"Vietnam made me a writer." —Tim O'Brien
Featuring over one hundred interviews with family, friends, peers, and others—not to mention Tim O'Brien himself—Peace is a Shy Thing provides a nearly day-by-day, gripping account of O'Brien's thirteen months as an infantryman in Vietnam and gives equal diligence to reconstructing O'Brien's writing process.
Alex Vernon's comprehensive research uncovered countless gems about O'Brien's life and the journey that made him into a literary icon, including an unpublished short story about O'Brien from his college girlfriend, documentation of his comical involvement with the Washington Post's coverage of Watergate, and a 1989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.
Peace is a Shy Thing is as much a history of the era as it is a story of O'Brien's life, from his small-town midwestern midcentury childhood, to winning the National Book Award and his status as literary elder statesman. A story which Vernon, a combat veteran of the Persian Gulf War and a literary scholar trained by officers and professors of the Vietnam era, is uniquely suited to cover.
