If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home - Softcover

O'Brien, Tim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0440343119 ISBN 13: 9780440343110

Publisher: Dell Pub Co, 1992

Synopsis

A candid view of the American military establishment and the Vietnam conflict as witnessed by a foot soldier in the late sixties

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Review:

"O'Brien brilliantly and quietly evokes the foot soldier's daily life in the paddies and foxholes, evokes a blind, blundering war. . . . Tim O'Brien writes with the care and eloquence of someone for whom communication is still a vital possibility. . . . A personal document of aching clarity. . . . A beautiful, painful book."
--The New York Times Book Review

"One of the best, most disturbing, and most powerful books about the shame that was / is Vietnam."
--Minneapolis Star and Tribune

About the Author:

TIM O'BRIEN received the 1979 National Book Award in fiction for Going After Cacciato. His other works include the Pulitzer finalist and a New York Times Book of the Century, The Things They Carried; the acclaimed novels Tomcat in Love and Northern Lights; and the national bestselling memoir If I Die in a Combat Zone. His novel In the Lake of the Woods received the James Fenimore Cooper Prize from the Society of American Historians and was named the best novel of 1994 by Time. In 2010 he received the Katherine Anne Porter Award for a distinguished lifetime body of work and in 2012 he received the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award from the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation. He was awarded the Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing in 2013.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dell Pub Co
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0440343119
• ISBN 13: 9780440343110
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback