Tim O'Brien

A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. Taught everywhere—from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writing—it has become required reading for any American and continues to challenge readers in their perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, courage and fear and longing. The Things They Carried won France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize; it was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

This riveting novel of love and mystery from the author of The Things They Carried examines the lasting impact of the twentieth century’s legacy of violence and warfare, both at home and abroad. When long-hidden secrets about the atrocities he committed in Vietnam come to light, a candidate for the U.S. Senate retreats with his wife to a lakeside cabin in northern Minnesota. Within days of their arrival, his wife mysteriously vanishes into the watery wilderness.

Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereWinner of the 1979 National Book Award, Going After Cacciato captures the peculiar mixture of horror and hallucination that marked this strangest of wars.In a blend of reality and fantasy, this novel tells the story of a young soldier who one day lays down his rifle and sets off on a quixotic journey from the jungles of Indochina to the streets of Paris. In its memorable evocation of men both fleeing from and meeting the demands of battle, Going After Cacciato stands as much more than just a great war novel. Ultimately it's about the forces of fear and heroism that do battle in the hearts of us all.

Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereA CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE THINGS THEY CARRIEDBefore writing his award-winning Going After Cacciato, Tim O'Brien gave us this intensely personal account of his year as a foot soldier in Vietnam. The author takes us with him to experience combat from behind an infantryman's rifle, to walk the minefields of My Lai, to crawl into the ghostly tunnels, and to explore the ambiguities of manhood and morality in a war gone terribly wrong. Beautifully written and searingly heartfelt, If I Die in a Combat Zone is a masterwork of its genre.Now with Extra Libris material, including a reader’s guide and bonus content

At 11:34 a.m. one Saturday in August 2019, Boyd Halverson strode into Community National Bank in Northern California. “How much is on hand, would you say?” he asked the teller. “I’ll want it all.” “You’re robbing me?” He revealed a Temptation .38 Special. The teller, a diminutive redhead named Angie Bing, collected eighty-one thousand dollars. Boyd stuffed the cash into a paper grocery bag. “I’m sorry about this,” he said, “but I’ll have to ask you to take a ride with me.” So begins the adventure of Boyd Halverson—star journalist turned notorious online disinformation troll turned JCPenney manager—and his irrepressible hostage, Angie Bing. Haunted by his past and weary of his present, Boyd has one goal before the authorities catch up with settle a score with the man who destroyed his life. By Monday the pair reach Mexico; by winter, they are in a lakefront mansion in Minnesota. On their trail are hitmen, jealous lovers, ex-cons, an heiress, a billionaire shipping tycoon, a three-tour veteran of Iraq, and the ghosts of Boyd’s past. Everyone, it seems, except the police. In the tradition of Jonathan Swift and Mark Twain, America Fantastica delivers a biting, witty, and entertaining story about the causes and costs of outlandish fantasy, while also marking the triumphant return of an essential voice in American letters. And at the heart of the novel, amid a teeming cast of characters, readers will delight in the tug-of-war between two memorable and iconic human beings—the exuberant savior-of-souls Angie Bing and the penitent but compulsive liar Boyd Halverson. Just as Tim O’Brien’s modern classic, The Things They Carried , so brilliantly reflected the unromantic truth of war, America Fantastica puts a mirror to a nation and a time that has become dangerously unmoored from truth and greedy for delusion.

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.

To date, Tim O'Brien's novels have all shared common traits: his heroes hail from the Midwest, usually Minnesota; Vietnam figures prominently; and the stories he tells, though invested with mordant wit, are usually pretty grim. So an O'Brien fan coming to Tomcat in Love on the heels of his earlier novels can be forgiven for occasionally checking the name on the cover (and the photo on the dust jacket) just to be sure this is, indeed, the same Tim O'Brien who wrote Going After Cacciato, The Things They Carried, If I Die in a Combat Zone, and In the Lake of the Woods. In Tomcat in Love O'Brien introduces us to a very different hero: "In summary, then, my circumstances were these. Something over forty-nine years of age. Recently divorced. Pursued. Prone to late-night weeping. Betrayed not once but threefold: by the girl of my dreams, by her Pilate of a brother, and by a Tampa real-estate tycoon whose name I have vowed never again to utter." Thomas H. Chippering, professor of linguistics, war hero, and sex magnet--in his own mind, at least, has recently lost his childhood sweetheart and wife of 20 years to another man, the Tampa magnate, and Lorna Sue's desertion has clearly unhinged him. He has taken to flying down to Tampa from Minnesota on weekends to spy on his ex-wife and plot revenge against her, the tycoon, and Lorna Sue's brother, Herbie, whom he blames for destroying his marriage. Thomas, Lorna Sue, and Herbie go back a long way together, bound equally by ties of love, guilt, and suspicion. Dating from the afternoon young Herbie nailed an even younger Lorna Sue's hand to a makeshift cross, Thomas has occupied a kind of emotional no man's land between the two: "In my bleakest moods, when black gets blackest, I think of it as a high perversion: Herbie coveted his own sister. Which is a fact. The stone truth. He was in love with her. More generously, I will sometimes concede that it was not sexual love, or not entirely, and that Herbie was driven by the obsessions of a penitent, a torturer turned savior. Partly, too, I am quite certain that Herbie secretly associated me with his own guilt. I was present at the beginning. My backyard, my plywood, my green paint." Chippering takes his revenge to hilarious lengths, starting with a purple leather bra and panties stuffed beneath the seat of the tycoon's car and escalating from there. But even as he attempts to wreak havoc in his ex-wife's life, he succeeds in laying ruin to his own. His self-proclaimed irresistibility to women gets him in hot water with both his female students and his administration; his obsession with Lorna Sue threatens his budding romance with Mrs. Robert Kooshof, a woman who loves him as his wife never did--and, oh yes, there's that little matter of the squad of Green Berets he crossed many years before in Vietnam who may or may not be hunting him down. Once you get over the shock of this new, funny Tim O'Brien, traces of the writer you thought you knew begin to surface. Chippering might be a pompous, overbearing windbag, but you can't trust him any more than you did any of O'Brien's other earthier, equally unreliable narrators. In one breath, he tells us, "I must in good conscience point out that women find me attractive beyond words. And who on earth could blame them?" In the next he describes himself as resembling "a clean-shaven version of our sixteenth president." Half the fun of reading Tomcat in Love is trying to sort out just how much of what Thomas H. Chippering tells us is true. Stellar writing, a brilliant cast of characters, and a sly, surprising story that breaks your heart one minute and tickles your funny bone the next all make Tim O'Brien's first foray into the comic novel a resounding success. --Alix Wilber

A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE THINGS THEY CARRIEDOriginally 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 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.

The Nuclear Age is about one man's slightly insane attempt to come to terms with a dilemma that confronts us all—a little thing called The Bomb. The year is 1995, and William Cowling has finally found the courage to meet his fears head-on. Cowling's courage takes the form of a hole that he begins digging in his backyard in an effort to "bury" all thoughts of the apocalypse. Cowling's wife, however, is ready to leave him; his daughter has taken to calling him "nutto"; and Cowling's own checkered past seems to be rising out of the crater taking shape on his lawn, besieging him with flashbacks and memories of a life that's had more than its share of turmoil. Brilliantly interweaving his masterful storytelling powers with dark, surreal humor and empathy for characters caught in circumstances beyond their control, Tim O'Brien brings us his most entertaining novel to date. At once wildly comic and sneakily profound, The Nuclear Age is also utterly unforgettable.

Best-selling author Tim O’Brien shares wisdom from a life in letters, lessons learned in wartime, and the challenges, humor, and rewards of raising two sons.“We are all writing our maybe books full of maybe tomorrows, and each maybe tomorrow brings another maybe tomorrow, and then another, until the last line of the last page receives its period.” In 2003, already an older father, National Book Award–winning novelist Tim O’Brien resolved to give his young sons what he wished his own father had given to him—a few scraps of paper signed “Love, Dad.” Maybe a word of advice. Maybe a sentence or two about some long-ago Christmas Eve. Maybe some scattered glimpses of their rapidly aging father, a man they might never really know. For the next fifteen years, the author talked to his sons on paper, as if they were adults, imagining what they might want to hear from a father who was no longer among the living. O’Brien traverses the great variety of human experience and emotion, moving from soccer games to warfare to risqué lullabies, from alcoholism to magic shows to history lessons to bittersweet bedtime stories, but always returning to a father’s soul-saving love for his sons. The result is Dad’s Maybe Book, a funny, tender, wise, and enduring literary achievement that will squeeze the reader’s heart with joy and recognition.

“Tim O’Brien is the best American writer of his generation.” — San Francisco ExaminerWith 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.

«Qué voz más desnuda y terrible» (Jacinto Antón, El País); «Un doloroso ejer­cicio de honestidad llevado a cabo con absoluta sinceridad y rigor. Un relato soberbiamente ejecutado» (Eduardo Lago).

Personal essay. Find at http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/09/20...

Roller coasters took Dick Kinzel slowly to the top and a $1.24 billion acquisition ultimately lead to his direst years. During his 39-year career (25 as president and CEO) with Cedar Point and Cedar Fair parks, he built the world's first 200, 300, and 400-foot tall roller coasters. He is responsible for adding more than 35 multi-million dollar scream machines to the company's 11 amusement parks. It was he who delivered the first shot in the coaster wars of the 1990s when he built the Magnum XL-200, the first to top the 200-foot barrier. .He brought big, edgy and expensive coasters to Cedar Point knowing that the bigger the thrill ride, the bigger the crowds. He made sure Cedar Point remained the "Amazement Park" and the Roller Coaster Capital of the World.His story is one of tenacity, conservatism and risk taking. It's one of big business and one of fun making. Dick spent his life putting smiles on people's faces and fear in their eyes.For the first time his journey is told in from his highs and lows to the laughs and tears, this is the story of the man who brought more roller coaster to Ohio than any other man. This is the official biography of Richard L. Kinzel.

Tim O'Brien Women's SocksTranslation: Maryam Nourizadجوراب بلند زنانه تیم اوبراینترجمه: مریم نوری زاد

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Written by award-winning psychologist Dr Tim O’Brien, "wholeheartedly" recommended by Sir Elton John and endorsed by Arsene Wenger, Manager of Arsenal Football Club in the English Premier League, this is a book about you. There are two stories inside your head. One is about your life. The other is controlling your life - that story is your Inner Story. It is created in your mind and controls everything that you think, feel and do. If you want to understand and change how you think, feel and behave or if you want to be more confident, successful and happier you have to know your inner story. If you want to perform better as an individual or as a team you have to know your inner story too - but how much do you know about yours? For years Tim has worked behind-the-scenes in global businesses, elite sport and with high profile public figures. Now he shares his expertise with you so that you can understand your mind and change your world. This book will also help you change the world of others.

One of 300 numbered and copies signed by O'Brien. Originally written as a chapter for "Going After Cacciato".

This really is a crisis management process that fits your culture. There is a lot of material on crisis communications, but this book is different. It’s an actual plan. This concise book gives you the complete content for the crisis communications plan you can customize to your own operating culture, taking into account all the unique ways your organization gathers and processes information, sets priorities and makes decisions.This approach is real-world tested and proven. It’s modeled on how veteran crisis communicators jump in to the most intense situations and mitigate crises every day. This book will give you everything you need to integrate crisis communications preparedness into your culture long before a disruption occurs.The Essential Crisis Communications Plan includes worksheets, models, samples and examples of what you need to establish your own system to prevent small crises from getting bigger, and to effectively manage the biggest crises you could face.Crisis communications veteran Tim O’Brien has condensed everything he’s honed over decades and hundreds of situations in crisis management, and he presents it to you in a compact handbook that will get you through some of your most trying times. It will help everything into place so that when a crisis hits, your organization will be ready in 60 minutes or less;Efficiently gather and analyze all the information you need to develop powerful key messages;Prep your senior management team for the worst of the worst;Think about how to adapt the book’s fundamental crisis communications principles to any and every communications platform, technology, tactic and media channel;Leverage non-crisis periods to get ahead of that next crisis;Easily integrate a crisis management mindset into your organization’s culture to ensure maximum crisis preparedness.The Essential Crisis Communications Plan is written in a simple, conversational style that gets to the heart of crisis management. Discover why a crisis communications plan doesn't have to be long and cumbersome while still guiding an organization through major disruption. You can have your customized, working crisis communications plan ready in days, along with the peace of mind that comes with having that plan in place.Order your copy now.

آنچه بر دوش می‌کشیدند ضیافتی از داستان‌های کوتاه را ترتیب داده است. هر ‫داستان، کلاسیک یا مدرن، طعم و بوی خاص خود را دارد و مخاطب را در فضایی میان گذشته و حال شناور می‌سازد. دست‌چینی از آثار کوتاه و اندیشه‌ساز نویسندگان انگلیسی زبان، چه آن‌ها که از نژاد آنگلوساکسون بودند و در انگلستان یا ایرلند به دنیا آمدند و چه آن‌ها که در قارهٔ نو‌، پا به عرصهٔ وجود گذاشتند، پیش روی شیفتگان داستان قرار گرفته است. شخصیت‌هایی متفاوت خلق می‌شوند و برخی‌شان خواننده را در جهانی از چلش‌ها، انگیزه‌ها، کنش‌ها و تأمّلات درونی و فلسفی خویش، درگیر می‌سازند. هر شخصیت، از کودک آرمان‌خواه فاتح اسپانیایی و پدربزرگش گرفته تا ستوانی دل‌باخته به نام جیمی کراس، در آنچه بر دوش می‌کشیدند، که دل در گرو عشق مارتا دارد، جلوه‌ای آشنا از طبیعت بشر و ایده‌آل‌هایش را باز می‌آفریند و این‌گونه، احساس هم‌ذات پنداری مخاطب را برمی‌انگیزد. ولی علیرغم تفاوت‌هایی بی‌شمار که در جهان‌بینی شخصیت‌ها و نحوهٔ نگرش آن‌ها به آدم‌های پیرامونشان به چشم می‌خورد، تمامشان از وجهی مشترک برخوردارند و آن، بار تحمّل‌ناپذیر تنها بودن است که هریک به شکلی، بر دوش می‌کشند.The present book is a selection of short and thought-provoking short stories by English-speaking authors. Each story, classic or modern, has its own taste and smell and makes the audience float between the past and the present. The theme is presented to the reader from the dark atmosphere of the stories and the pessimistic look that is housed in the lower layers, and flips over to the raw fantasy of the simple-minded who strongly believe that life is a sweet and pleasant phenomenon. In the story of "Hand", we read: A man finds an artificial hand that has fallen on the floor of the street and takes it home with him, washes it, and constantly thinks about what the owner of this hand looks like. She goes to the market to find men without hands

Mask of Vengeance is a story told from the unique and separate perspectives of four people whose lives become connected after the murder of an innocent man and then... ...hopelessly intertwined following the assassination of a guilty one. The first of these four is seventeen year old Stephanie Sebastiano, a withdrawn dreamer, who attends high school at Kingsley Academy. She continues to have trouble putting her life back together after the murder of her father, Thomas, during a police undercover operation while infiltrating the notorious Scorpione crime syndicate. Though she suspects the Scorpiones killed her father, proving they did it is next to impossible as they are good at covering their tracks. Her only rock in the storm is her close friend Patrick whose love and support keeps her afloat... ...in the treacherous sea of her hectic life. The second is Jimmy Ziminski, a veteran of the Gulf War and currently a workaholic Homicide Detective with the Benton City Police Department who refuses to give up hope in solving the murder of his ex-partner, Thomas Sebastiano. Mixed feelings arise in Jimmy when Vincent Scorpione, suspected crime lord of Benton and the man Jimmy believes killed his old partner, is murdered by a mysterious masked ninja assassin. Jimmy is determined to capture this vigilante before they strike again, but how will he catch someone... ...who is as elusive as the darkness itself? The third is Stephanie's sister, Jennifer, who suffered a mental breakdown after the death of their father. No longer fit to be an active member of society, Jennifer remains at the Borgestadt Institute for the Mentally Ill where she is treated by the best psychological specialist in the world, Doctor Mei Tachibana, who tirelessly works day and night to cure Jennifer's condition and make her well again. However, Jennifer has a secret... ...She dreamed her father's murder before it happened. The fourth is Patrick O'Hara. A close friend of Stephanie Sebastiano, he is a normal guy with no worries. Then, his life gets complicated fast when he witnesses the murder of his neighbor, Vincent Scorpione, from his bedroom window. Now everyone is a suspect as he frantically tries to uncover the assassin's identity. But is the assassin... ...closer to Patrick than he thinks? Dive into a dark and gritty world of love, hate, vendetta, and intrigue as these four brave souls desperately fight through corruption and conspiracy... ...to finally discover the truth behind the mask of vengeance.

Condensed version of the book.

Recorded live at the Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City and at venues across the United States, these audio anthologies feature short stories from the Selected Shorts program that airs nationwide. More than 300,000 listeners tune in to this offering weekly to hear some of their favorite tales read aloud by an assortment of distinguished actors. What happens to people's lives during times of battle and strife from the American Revolution to the ongoing war in Iraq is the subject of this collection. Before Independence, a slave fights for freedom by taking up arms for the British; in WW I, a mother goes to the front lines to see her son; and in our time, a teenager in Oregon waits for e-mail from his father in the Middle East. Featured stories include Tom Bissell’s "War Wounds" read by Oskar Eustis, Robert Olen Butler’s "Mother in the Trenches" read by Kathleen Chalfant, Charles Johnson’s "A Soldier for the Crown" read by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Tim O’Brien’s "The Things They Carried" read by Dylan Baker, and Benjamin Percy’s "Refresh, Refresh" read by Ted Marcoux.