Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1990. An advance reading excerpt, featuring trial cover art (one of three early designs rejected by O'Brien), of this collection of related stories that share a number of characters as well as the narrator -- a "Tim O'Brien" whose experience bears certain similarities to the author's own, as well as a number of differences. This title was selected as one of the best books of the year in all categories by the editors of The New York Times Book Review and, in 2006, named one of the best works of American fiction of the past 25 years in those same pages. A meditation on war and death, and on the place that storytelling has in bringing these unfathomable experiences within our grasp. Fine in stapled wrappers. [#019986] SOLD