Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019. SIGNED. Purchased New. NF/NF. First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending in 1. Signed by Tim O'Brien on the title page. This unread book is tight and square with solid hinges. Creases to the spine ends. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Color photo frontispiece and back page and B&W matte photographs. The dust jacket is unclipped ($28.00) with a faint crinkle to the spine tail edge, else Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 381 pages. 6¼ x 9¼" tall.
In 2003, already an older father, National Book Award-winning novelist Tim O'Brien resolved to give his young sons what he wished his own father had given to him—a few scraps of paper signed “Love, Dad.” Maybe a word of advice. Maybe a sentence or two about some long-ago Christmas Eve. Maybe some scattered glimpses of their rapidly aging father, a man they might never really know. For the next fifteen years, the author talked to his sons on paper, as if they were adults, imagining what they might want to hear from a father who was no longer among the living.
O'Brien traverses the great variety of buy human experience and emotion, moving from soccer games to warfare to risqué lullabies, from alcoholism to magic shows to history lessons to bittersweet bedtime stories, but always returning to a father's soul-saving love for his sons.
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Product code: SIGNED, Dad's Maybe Book, Tim O'Brien, Signed on title page, First Edition, buy First Printing, New