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Dad's Maybe Book by Tim O'Brien (2019, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN-100618039708

ISBN-139780618039708

eBay Product ID (ePID)27038731683

Product Key Features

Book TitleDad's Maybe Book

Number of Pages400 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicParenting / Fatherhood, Personal Memoirs, Literary, Military

Publication Year2019

IllustratorYes

GenreFamily & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorTim O'Brien

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.3 in

Item Weight22 Oz

Item Length6.3 in

Item Width9.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2019-002551

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"[ A] stirring blend of memoir, letters to his young sons, and meditations on the humbling nature of parenthood . . . It's a work that's the spiritual inheritor of John Steinbeck's Travels With Charley and Kurt Vonnegut's A Man Without a Country. Like those, Dad's Maybe Book dwells on the state of America and American life. He takes absolutism to task, finds qualifications for his own pacifism and considers the paradox of a moral society that allows for forever war." -- TIME Magazine "A moving meditation on fatherhood." -- The National , Amtrak's magazine "Brilliant . . . To say the book is about 'fatherhood' is akin to saying that Catch-22 is about World War II." -- VVA Veteran (Vietnam Veterans of America) "Touching . . . A dazzling dedication to life, love, and fatherhood ." -- Austin Monthly "Tim O'Brien has written amazingly powerful novels. Now he's gifting us with a terrific book of personal essays. His every just-the-right word about family, history, war, literature, and love dispatched tears and laughter and contemplation into my brain and heart ." -- Orange County Register "O'Brien uses his deft skill of wordplay throughout this latest book...Fans of parenting books, memoirs, and stories of Vietnam War veterans will find enjoyment in these heartfelt words." -- Library Journal "[A] tender memoir . . . With great candor, O'Brien succeeds in conveying the urgency parents may feel at any age, as they ready their children for life without them." -- Publishers Weekly "O'Brien writes of the bitter irony of being known as a war writer, 'despite my hatred for war, despite my ineptitude at war, despite my abiding shame at having participated in war.'" -- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Praise for Dad's Maybe Book "Brilliant...To say the book is about 'fatherhood' is akin to saying that Catch-22 is about World War II." -- VVA Veteran "Tim O'Brien has written amazingly powerful novels. Now he's gifting us with a terrific book of personal essays. His every just-the-right word about family, history, war, literature, and love dispatched tears and laughter and contemplation into my brain and heart." -- Orange County Register "Ruminations and reminiscences of an author--now in his 70s--about fatherhood, writing, and death...An eclectic assembly of pieces." -- Kirkus "O'Brien uses his deft skill of wordplay throughout this latest book...Fans of parenting books, memoirs, and stories of Vietnam War veterans will find enjoyment in these heartfelt words." -- Library Journal "[A] tender memoir...With great candor, O'Brien succeeds in conveying the urgency parents may feel at any age, as they ready their children for life without them." -- Publishers Weekly "A moving meditation on fatherhood." -- The National , Amtrak's magazine "O'Brien writes of the bitter irony of being known as a war writer, 'despite my hatred for war, despite my ineptitude at war, despite my abiding shame at having participated in war.'" -- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "A warm book filled with a fathers love for his sons." -- Triboro Banner "Touching...A dazzling dedication to life, love, and fatherhood." -- Austin Monthly

Dewey Decimal813.6

SynopsisBest-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 risqu 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., 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., 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.

LC Classification NumberPS3565.B75Z46 2019