If I Die in a Combat Zone - Softcover

Tim O'Brien

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0586087990 ISBN 13: 9780586087992

Publisher: Paladin, 1995

Synopsis

By the same author as "Northern Lights", "Going after Cacciato" and "The Nuclear Age", this book presents a first hand account of the author's time spent serving as an infantry sergeant in the Vietnamese War.

About this title

About the Author:

Tim O'Brien was born in Minnesota and graduated from Macalester College in St Paul. He established himself as one of the leading writers of his generation in 1973 when he published 'If I Die In A Combat Zone', the compelling account of his own tour of duty in Vietnam and is widely regarded as the finest novelist the Vietnam War has produced.

Review:

`No one has written about the Vietnam War with the eloquence of Tim O'Brien. If I Die in a Combat Zone may be the single greatest piece of work to come out of Vietnam - on a level with World War II's The Naked and the Dead and From Here to Eternity.' Washington Star `A work of passion and protest ... one of the few good things to come out of that desolating struggle.' Guardian `A personal document of aching clarity ... O'Brien brilliantly and quietly evokes the foot soldier's daily life in the paddies and foxholes. A beautiful, painful book.' New York Times Book Review `I wish O'Brien did not write so beautifully, for he makes it impossible to forget his book. Years from now it will still have that terrible power to make me remember and to make me weep.' New York Times `O'Brien certainly ranks among the best writers we have.' Joseph Heller

About this edition

• Publisher: Paladin
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0586087990
• ISBN 13: 9780586087992
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208