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TIM O’BRIEN
If I Die in a Combat Zone
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This Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition published in 2006
Published by Flamingo in 1995
and reprinted five times Previously published in paperback by Paladin 1989 and by Grafton Books 1980 Reprinted twice First published in Great Britain by Calder and Boyars Ltd 1973
Copyright © Tim O’Brien 1969, 1970, 1972, 1973
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Portions of this book appeared inPlayboy, the Washington Post, the Minneapolis Tribune and Worthington Daily Globe
Excerpts from ‘Laches’ from The Dialogues of Plato translated by Benjamin Jowett © Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1953. Used by permission of the publisher.
Excerpt from ‘The Waste Land’ from Collected Poems 1909–62 by T.S. Eliot. Used by permission of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc and Faber & Faber.
Lines from ‘Homeward Bound’ by Paul Simon
© 1966 by Paul Simon. Used by permission of Charing Cross Music, Inc.
Excerpt from ‘Hugh Selwyn Mauberly – IV’ from Personae by Ezra Pound. Used by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation and Faber & Faber Ltd.
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