About this title: A college professor and Vietnam vet named Thomas H. Chippering is 49, divorced, depressed, and obsessed with women--particularly with his ex-wife, whom he wants desperately to get back. He begins to spy on her and her new lover and, eventually, spins his fantasies into a series of vengeful acts ranging from the comic to the violent. A New York ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Broadway
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780767902021ISBN:0767902025
Description: Good in Good jacket. 277-W-Add. Ex-library. Books rated "Good" may have some notes, underlining, or highlighting. These books also may contain the previous owner's name, stamp, sticker, or gift inscription, or may be library discards. read more
Description: Very good. Book has appearance of light use with no easily noticeable wear. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Ex-Library book-will contain library markings. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Very good. Book has appearance of light use with no easily noticeable wear. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Dust Jacket has some edgewear present. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Very Good. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Broadway
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780767902021ISBN:0767902025
Description: A former library book with the usual identifiers in a protective glossy dust jacket covering. Dust Jacket has some edgewear present. -, Hard Cover, Good / Very Good. read more
"Tim O'Brien's non-The-Things-They-Carried novels (the ones I've read, anyway, and I've read three) all astonish me with their twists, the blend of realism and surrealism--the believability of apparently half-insane characters. I truly dug it when, a few chapters in, I realized that Thomas Chippering, narrator, was a mold-breaking blowhard, not just a slightly pompous guy with a broken heart. The depiction of Lorna Sue, self-mutilating ex-wife, is handy, too. There are some pretty uncomfortable moments--DAMNED uncomfortable moments; O'Brien in ALL his work imagines stuff that, if it occurred to me, I would immediately dismiss from my mind as a bad place to explore. O'Brien's got writerly guts, and I admire that."
"This is not the sort of book I usually read. Extremely well written. I enjoyed the "words." Thomas H. Chippering is a great character -- egotistical to the extreme, ridiculously funny and very sad. Part of the charm of the book is the author's blurring of reality and fantasy. I still haven't quite figured it out..."
"This book was an interesting look into how a man sees women. I, being a woman, found that part quite interesting. It was also surprisingly humerus. I would definitely read it again."
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