by Tim O'Brien
Recommended by Tim Ferriss and Caroline Paul
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See customer reviews on Amazon →Recommended by 3 sources and appears in War, Vietnam War, and Historical Fiction.
In 1979, Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato?a novel about the Vietnam War?won the National Book Award. In this, his second work of fiction about Vietnam, O'Brien's unique artistic vision is again clearly demonstrated. Neither a novel nor a short story collection, it is an arc of fictional episodes, taking place in the childhoods of its characters, ...
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in War, Vietnam War, and Historical Fiction.
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Consider War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. Recommended by 9 sources.
“This is a vast, character-centered historical novel that moves between drawing-room conversations, battlefield narration and extended reflections on history and free will. You’ll spend long stretches inside the heads of several aristocratic families while the nation slides toward and through war; the reward is sharp psychological observation and richly textured social detail. The main limitation is scale: scenes repeat themes at length and Tolstoy stops to argue about historical causation, which breaks narrative momentum for readers who want a tighter plot.”
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