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Tim O'Brien (1) (1946–)

Autor(a) de The Things They Carried

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18+ Works 23,114 Membros 579 Críticas 83 Favorited

About the Author

Tim O'Brien was born on October 1, 1946 in Austin, Minnesota. He graduated from Macalester College in 1968 and was immediately drafted into the U. S. Army, serving from 1969 to 1970 and receiving a Purple Heart. Three years later, his memoirs of the Vietnam War were published as If I Die in a mostrar mais Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home. Later works include Northern Lights (1975), Going After Cacciato (1978, winner of the National Book Award), and The Things They Carried (1990, winner of the Melcher Book Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award). (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Image credit: English: Author Tim O'Brien at the 2012 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas, United States. O'Brien won the 1979 National Book Award for Fiction for his novel Going After Cacciato.

Obras por Tim O'Brien

The Things They Carried (1990) 14,359 exemplares
In the Lake of the Woods (1994) 2,754 exemplares
Going After Cacciato (1978) 2,231 exemplares
July, July (2002) 779 exemplares
Tomcat in Love (1998) 699 exemplares
The Nuclear Age (1985) 362 exemplares
Northern Lights (1975) 263 exemplares
America Fantastica (2023) 142 exemplares
Dad's Maybe Book (2019) 83 exemplares

Associated Works

The Best American Short Stories of the Century (2000) — Artista da capa — 1,552 exemplares
The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction (1983) — Contribuidor — 1,130 exemplares
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories (1992) — Contribuidor — 743 exemplares
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories (1994) — Contribuidor — 477 exemplares
Flash Fiction: 72 Very Short Stories (1992) — Contribuidor — 394 exemplares
The Granta Book of the American Short Story (1992) — Contribuidor — 368 exemplares
The Portable Sixties Reader (2002) — Contribuidor — 324 exemplares
Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology (1997) — Contribuidor — 277 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories of the 80s (1990) — Contribuidor — 160 exemplares
Granta 29: New World (1989) — Contribuidor — 151 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories 1987 (1987) — Contribuidor — 129 exemplares
The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction (2008) — Contribuidor — 122 exemplares
Leaving Home: Stories (1997) — Contribuidor — 116 exemplares
American Short Stories (1976) — Contribuidor, algumas edições95 exemplares
Who Do You Think You Are?: Stories of Friends and Enemies (1993) — Contribuidor — 94 exemplares
Granta 16: Science (1985) — Contribuidor — 82 exemplares
The Literary Ghost: Great Contemporary Ghost Stories (1991) — Contribuidor — 75 exemplares
Great Esquire Fiction (1983) — Contribuidor — 70 exemplares
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (2003) — Contribuidor — 68 exemplares
The Putt at the End of the World (2000) 57 exemplares
The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story (2021) — Contribuidor — 52 exemplares
Escape: Stories of Getting Away (2002) — Contribuidor — 26 exemplares
The New Great American Writers' Cookbook (2003) — Contribuidor — 21 exemplares
Inheriting the Land: Contemporary Voices from the Midwest (1993) — Contribuidor — 16 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories 1977 (1977) — Contribuidor — 15 exemplares
Hemingway [2021 TV miniseries] (2021) — Self — 12 exemplares
Night: A Literary Companion (2009) — Contribuidor — 8 exemplares

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Mel just never got around to this not sure if it just wasn't his thing. Bank robbers, not Vietnam, not history
 
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cnfoht | 6 outras críticas | Mar 13, 2024 |
Didn't love it - didn't care - didn't finish
 
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xfitkitten | 6 outras críticas | Mar 9, 2024 |
Without a doubt, one of the best that came from the soldier-writers who survived Vietnam.
 
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ben_r47 | 390 outras críticas | Feb 22, 2024 |
a question, a mystery presented to the reader right away but never answered. That is, are these stories true, biographical, or purely fiction? O’Brien’s intimate narration and total immersion into the horror and wonder-filled world he was thrown into as a young man make these stories of fiction seem utterly real. This work creates a suspension of disbelief for the reader that is arguably incomparable.

Tim O’Brien visited my university while I was an undergrad and during his speech he portrayed himself and his writing with the same moral relativism and “neutrality” is all too common in contemporary America. But in the same breathe he spoke in utter disbelief of how once a High school student told him that this book was what inspired him to join the Marines. O’Brien broke down crying after that.

A good book to show your older children great writing and the horror of war.
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Aidan767 | 390 outras críticas | Feb 1, 2024 |

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Obras
18
Also by
34
Membros
23,114
Popularidade
#914
Avaliação
4.0
Críticas
579
ISBN
286
Línguas
13
Marcado como favorito
83

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