Tim O'Brien

In the Lake of the Woods

Husband disappears mysteriously as wife struggles with truth and memory

About the author

Tim O'Brien
Tim O'Brien

American novelist and memoirist whose Vietnam War fiction is among the most powerful war literature in the American canon. The Things They Carried blurs memoir and fiction to interrogate the nature of truth in storytelling. His work is required reading in American high schools and universities.

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