July, July - Softcover

O'Brien, Tim

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ISBN 10: 0142003387 ISBN 13: 9780142003381

Publisher: Penguin Group USA, 2003

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Ten old friends and classmates share memories of the past, current regrets, and future plans as they gather on a July weekend for the thirtieth reunion of Minnesota's Darton Hall College's class of 1969, in an incisive portrait of the baby-boomers generation. By the author of Going After Cacciato. Reprint.

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‘“July, July” is beautifully written, very moving and very, very funny. It is also packed with some of the best characters I’ve read in a long time. A great book from one of America’s greatest writers.’ Roddy Doyle

‘“July, July” is a book for all seasons. Funny and poignant, it looks into the nature of our dreams and how fulfilment eludes us.’ Edna O’Brien

‘O’Brien expands on the themes he explored in some of his best-known earlier novels: memory, hope, love, war...This is a poignant and powerful page-turner, and a testament to a generation.’ Publishers Weekly

About the Author:

Minnesota native Tim O'Brien graduated from Macalester College in St. Paul in 1968. He served as a foot soldier in Vietnam from February 1969 to March 1970. Following his military service, he went to graduate school in Government at Harvard University, then later worked as a national affairs reporter for The Washington Post. O'Brien is the author of the novel Going After Cacciato, winner of the 1979 National Book Award for fiction, and of The Things They Carried, winner of the 1990 Chicago Tribune Heartland Award in fiction. Its title story, first published in Esquire, received the 1987 National Magazine Award in fiction. His other books are If I Die in a Combat Zone, Northern Lights, and The Nuclear Age. His work has appeared in numerous magazines, including Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, McCall's, Granta, Harper's, Redbook, The New Republic, Ploughshares, Gentleman's Quarterly, and Saturday Review. His short stories have been anthologized in The O. Henry Prize Stories (1976, 1978, 1982), Great Esquire Fiction, Best American Short Stories (1978, 1987), The Pushcart Prize (Vols. II and X), and in many textbooks and collections. He has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Massachusetts Arts and Humanities Foundation. In the Lake of the Woods was selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of 1994.