Literary fiction: Tim O'Brien's America Fantastica is November's best-written recent release

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Literary fiction: Tim O'Brien's America Fantastica is November's best-written recent release

Goldsmiths Prize for innovative fiction: Never Was by H. Gareth Gavin is the best-written book on the shortlist

Literary fiction: Tim O'Brien's America Fantastica is November's best-written recent release

America Fantastica by Tim O'Brien

America Fantastica by Tim O'Brien

America Fantastica by Tim O'Brien

Goldsmiths Prize for innovative fiction: Never Was by H. Gareth Gavin is the best-written book on the shortlist

Before 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.

If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home [Book]

America Fantastica: Tim O'Brien – PDX Book Fest

Dusting Off the Pages of Tim O'Brien and James M. Cain

“Tim O'Brien is the one American author whose works I look forward to the most. His new novel's ironic depiction of a post-Iraq war, mid-COVID, and

America Fantastica: A Novel