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Speaking of Courage

Speaking of Courage

Speaking of Courage

Speaking of Courage

by O'BRIEN, Tim

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Santa Barbara: Neville, 1980. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Slightest sunning to the spine, still easily fine without dustwrapper as issued. One of 300 numbered copies Signed by the author. A post-war story originally written as a chapter for *Going After Cacciato*.

Synopsis

Speaking of Courage by Tim O’Brien, a postwar story about Vietnam, was written in 1975 at the request of and based on Norman Bowker, an American solider who was having difficulties with finding a meaningful use for his life after the war. O’Brien originally intended for the story to be a chapter of Going After Cacciato so, instead of using Norman Bowker’s name, the protagonist in the earliest versions of Speaking of Courage is named Paul Berlin like the novel's main character.    The story has been revised and published in a number of places, appearing in various periodicals and anthologies with various textual variations. In 1990, a form of Speaking of Courage became one of twenty-two stories included in The Things They Carried, a sequence of interrelated stories that has been heralded as one of the finest volumes of fiction about the Vietnam War. In this version, the protagonist’s name is changed to Norman Bowker, after the story’s initial inspiration.

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Bookseller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
282926
Title
Speaking of Courage
Author
O'BRIEN, Tim
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Fine
Quantity Available
1
Publisher
Neville
Place of Publication
Santa Barbara
Date Published
1980
Keywords
AmerLit20thCent

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