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Author:   Tim O'Brien
Publisher:   Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)
Imprint:   Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Del
Edition:   Reprinted edition
Dimensions:   Width: 13.30cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 20.30cm
Weight:   0.296kg
ISBN:  

9780767904414

ISBN 10:   0767904419
Pages:   372
Publication Date:   01 September 1999
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock  
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The suspense is spellbinding.. . . What puts this tale above countless others is the care and eloquence of Tim O'Brien. <br>-- Chicago Sun-Times <br> Northern Lights is a thrilling story . . . which can be read and enjoyed simply as an adventure story, but digs deeper than that. <br>-- Irish Times <br> Gripping and convincing. . . . Northern Lights is an impressive rst novel. <br>-- Times Literary Supplement <br> O'Brien writes superbly, he also has a wonderful ear for ordinary American idiom and the ability to ne-tune its innate rhythms, cadences, and imagery into an authentic popular poetry. <br>-- The Guardian <br> Haunting. . . . Survival, courage, and heroes are examined beautifully and simply. <br>-- Publishers Weekly

Author Information

TIM O’BRIEN received the 1979 National Book Award in fiction for Going After Cacciato. His other works include the Pulitzer finalist and a New York Times Book of the Century, The Things They Carried; the acclaimed novels Tomcat in Love and Northern Lights; and the national bestselling memoir If I Die in a Combat Zone. His novel In the Lake of the Woods received the James Fenimore Cooper Prize from the Society of American Historians and was named the best novel of 1994 by Time. In 2010 he received the Katherine Anne Porter Award for a distinguished lifetime body of work and in 2012 he received the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award from the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation. He was awarded the Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing in 2013.

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