The Things They Carried In the Lake of the Woods : 2 Works

Name: The Things They Carried In the Lake of the Woods : 2 Works
Rating: 4.12751677852349 (447 reviews)
Author: Tim O'Brien
ISBN: 9788433976000

by Tim O'Brien

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(447 ratings)

520 pages28 editions2011Houghton Mifflin HarcourtISBN 9788433976000

Fiction

About this book

Tim O Brien is the best American writer of his generation. San Francisco Examiner With more than two million copies in print, The Things They Carried is a classic work of American literature that has been changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene. It is a groundbreaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. In the Lake of the Woods is an unforgettable novel of love and mystery. When long-hidden secrets about his past come to light, John Wade a Vietnam veteran and recent candidate for the U.S. Senate retreats with his wife to a cabin in northern Minnesota. She mysteriously vanishes and several explanations, all of them disturbing, rise to the surface. TIM O BRIEN received the 1979 National Book Award for Going After Cacciato. Among his other books are Tomcat in Love, If I Die in a Combat Zone, and July, July. "

Publication Details

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2011
Pages: 520
ISBN: 9788433976000
Language: en
Editions: 28

About Tim O'Brien

William Timothy O'Brien (born October 1, 1946) is an American novelist. He is best known for his book *The Things They Carried* (1990), a collection of linked semi-autobiographical stories inspired by O'Brien's experiences in the Vietnam War. In 2010, the New York Times described O'Brien's book as a Vietnam classic. In addition, he is known for his war novel, *Going After Cacciato* (1978), also about wartime Vietnam, and later novels about postwar lives of veterans. O'Brien has held the endowed chair at the MFA program of Texas State University–San Marcos every other academic year since 2003–2004 (2003–2004, 2005–2006, 2007–2008, 2009–2010, and 2011–2012). **Source**: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_O%27Brien_(author)" target="blanck">Tim O'Brien</a> on Wikipedia