By the same author as "Northern Lights", "Going after Cacciato" and "The Nuclear Age", this book presents a first hand account of the author's time spent serving as an infantry sergeant in the Vietnamese War.
Tim OBrien was born in Minnesota and graduated from Macalester College in St Paul. He established himself as one of the leading writers of his generation in 1973 when he published If I Die In A Combat Zone, the compelling account of his own tour of duty in Vietnam, and is widely regarded as the finest novelist the Vietnam War has produced.
