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Peace Is a Shy Thing: The Life and Art of Tim O'Brien

By Alex Vernon
Narrated by: Shawn Compton
Unabridged — 21 hours, 18 minutes
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By Alex Vernon
Narrated by: Shawn Compton
Unabridged — 21 hours, 18 minutes

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Featuring over one hundred interviews with family, friends, peers, and others-not to mention countless exchanges with Tim O'Brien himself-Peace is a Shy Thing provides a nearly day-by-day, gripping account of O'Brien's thirteen months as an infantryman in Vietnam and gives equal diligence to reconstructing O'Brien's writing process.



This meticulously researched biography explores the life and journey that turned O'Brien into a literary icon and a household name. It includes an unpublished sh...