{"product_id":"dads-maybe-book-paperback","title":"Dad's Maybe Book - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTim O'Brien\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBest-selling author Tim O'Brien shares wisdom from a life in letters, lessons learned in wartime, and the challenges, humor, and rewards of raising two sons.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"We are all writing our maybe books full of maybe tomorrows, and each maybe tomorrow brings another maybe tomorrow, and then another, until the last line of the last page receives its period.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e O'Brien traverses the great variety of 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The result is \u003cem\u003eDad's Maybe Book, \u003c\/em\u003e a funny, tender, wise, and enduring literary achievement that will squeeze the reader's heart with joy and recognition.\u003cp\u003eTim O'Brien and the writing of \u003cem\u003eDad's Maybe Book \u003c\/em\u003eare now the subject of the documentary film \u003cem\u003eThe War and Peace of Tim O'Brien\u003c\/em\u003e available to watch at timobrienfilm.com\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTIM O'BRIEN's acclaimed novels include \u003ci\u003eThe Things They Carried\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eJuly, July\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, and \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eGoing After Cacciato\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich received the 1979 National Book Award in fiction. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 7.9 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 12, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44214742188167,"sku":"9780358362784","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/kv1zrlH3bVpkzQUFPqowbA_c4156ea8-f1c3-4888-9659-b0484e5d544f.webp?v=1774241307","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/dads-maybe-book-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}