Peace Is a Shy Thing

The first literary biography of Tim O'Brien, the preeminent American writer of the war in Vietnam and one of the best writers of his generation, drawing on never-before-seen materials and original interviews. "Vietnam made me a writer." —Tim O'Brien Featuring over one hundred interviews with family, friends, peers, and others—not to mention countless exchanges with Tim O'Brien himself— Peace is a Shy Thing provides a nearly day-by-day, gripping account of O'Brien's thirteen months as an infantry