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Books : Literature & Fiction : Authors, A-Z : ( O ) : O'Brien, Tim
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COURAGE WEARS MANY FACESThe Civil War may be over, but for twelve-year-old Will Page, the pain and bitterness haven't ended. How could they have, when the Yankees were responsible for the deaths of everyone in his entire immediate family?
And now Will has to leave his comfortable home in the Shenandoah Valley and live with relatives he has never met, people struggling to eke out a living on their farm in the war-torn Virginia Piedmont. But the worst of it is that Will's uncle Jed had refused to fight for the Confederacy.
At first, Will regards his uncle as a traitor -- or at least a coward. But as they work side by side, Will begins to respect the man. And when he sees his uncle stand up for what he believes in, Will realizes that he must rethink his definition of honor and courage.
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Originally published in 1975, Tim O'Brien's debut novel demonstrates the emotional complexity and enthralling narrative tension that later earned him the National Book Award. At its core is the relationship between two brothers: one who went to Vietnam and one who stayed at home. As the two brothers struggle against an unexpected blizzard in Minnesota's remote north woods, what they discover about themselves and each other will change both of them for ever.
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As he did with In the Lake of the Woods, National Book Award winner Tim O'Brien strikes at the emotional nerve center of our lives with this ambitious, compassionate, and terrifically compelling new novel that tells the remarkable story of the generation molded and defined by the 1960s. At the thirtieth anniversary of Minnesota's Darton Hall College class of 1969, ten old friends reassemble for a July weekend of dancing, drinking, flirting, reminiscing, and regretting. The three decades since their graduation have seen marriage and divorce, children and careers, dreams deferred and disappointed-many memories and many ghosts. Together their individual stories create a portrait of a generation launched into adulthood at the moment when their country, too, lost its innocence. Imbued with his signature themes of passion, memory, and yearning, July, July is Tim O'Brien's most fully realized work.
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Seek life. Chache Lavi. That's what Paulie's uncle says they must do. But to seek life, Paulie and her family have to leave Haiti-the only home that Paulie has ever known. Since forever, Paulie has run in and out of the little houses nestled under the palms, smelling cocoa-bread and playing on the beach with her best friend Karyl. But now the little houses are gone. Their wood has been made into boats-boats used to escape Haiti.
Paulie wants to stay and fight-to change Haiti into a better place to live. She wants to talk to the reporters and bravely tell the truth, like Karyl's brother, Jean-Desir. But the macoutes come with their guns and knives to stop them. And they do something so terrible that Paulie must face the truth: before the soldiers come back, they must all leave-tonight, by sea.
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Featuring twenty short stories selected by Alan Davis and Michael White, this collection represents the best of unpublished new fiction. Tim O'Brien, nationally acclaimed author, picked the four prize-winning stories, and wrote the introduction.
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Playing solitaire is about the only thing from before "the incident" that Ellie will allow to be a part of her new life. Of course, her memories aren't all bad. There are the good times she had shared with Mama, before the illness took her away. But always, always, creeping in when Ellie least expects it, there's Daddy. Out there...somewhere. Even starting her new life with Grandpa can't change the fact of Daddy. And what he did. And what he could still do.
But when it comes to Daddy, Ellie has decided that only she--and not luck, chance, or fate--will determine how the final hand is played.
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Contributors to this issue include: Lee K. Abbott, Nin Andrews, Jennifer Ashton, Judith Berke, Gina Berriault, Teresa Cader, Robert Cohen, Laura Conklin, Wyn Cooper, Janet Desaulniers, Kathy Fagan, James Finnegan, Louise Glück, Jorie Graham, David Greenberg, Linda Gregerson, Allen Grossman, Beth Gylys, Daniel Halpern, Edward Hardy, Edward Hirsch, Patricia Hooper, Gray Jacobik, Nicholas Kahn, David Lehman, Philip Levine, Timothy Liu, Susan Mitchell, Joyce Carol Oates, Jacqueline Osherow, Stephen Sandy, Lisa Sapinkopf, Richard Selesnick, Charles Simic, Greg Simon, Ronald Wallace, Michael Waters, Heather White, Michael White, Charles Wright, Oksana Zabuzhko
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