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A wildly funny, brilliantly inventive novel about a man torn between two obsessions: the desperate need to win back his former wife and a craving to test his erotic charms on every woman he meets. He is 6'6" tall, a cross between Ichabod Crane and Abe Lincoln. He is a professor of linguistics,... read more
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First Sentence edit
I begin with the ridiculous, in June 1952, middle-century Minnesota, on that silvery-hot morning when Herbie Zylstra and I nailed two plywood boards together and called it an airplane.
Table of Contents edit
1. Faith
2. Eighteen
3. Tulip
4. Roses
5. Confession
6. Substance
7. Ned, Earleen, Velva
9. Cat
10. Performance
11. Goof
12. Predator
13. Pontiac
14. Virtue
15. No/Yes
16. Shell
17. Tampa
18. Lost
19. Found
20. Ledger
21. Rain
22. Twinkle
23. Yes/No
24. Noogies
25. Fire
26. Ring
27. You
28. Spot
29. Nineteen
30. Nerves
31. Visitation
32. Velocity
33. The Fourth (Morning, Early Afternoon)
34. Spider
35. The Fourth (Late Afternoon, Evening)
36. The Fourth (Late Night)
37. Fiji
Authors & Contributors edit
- Tim O'Brien (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: BROADWAY BOOKS
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1999
ISBN: 0-7679-0202-5
Page Count: 342
Publisher: BROADWAY BOOKS
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1999
ISBN: 0-7679-0202-5
Page Count: 342
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.54
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