Speaking Of Courage
by O'Brien, Tim
Speaking of Courage by Tim O’Brien, a postwar story about Vietnam, was written in 1975 at the request of and based on Norman Bowker, an American solider who was having difficulties with finding a meaningful use for his life after the war. O’Brien originally intended for the story to be a chapter of Going After Cacciato so, instead of using Norman Bowker’s name, the protagonist in the earliest versions of Speaking of Courage is named Paul Berlin like the novel's main character.
The story has been revised and published in a number of places, appearing in various periodicals and anthologies with various textual variations. In 1990, a form of Speaking of Courage became one of twenty-two stories included in The Things They Carried, a sequence of interrelated stories that has been heralded as one of the finest volumes of fiction about the Vietnam War. In this version, the protagonist’s name is changed to Norman Bowker, after the story’s initial inspiration.
The story has been revised and published in a number of places, appearing in various periodicals and anthologies with various textual variations. In 1990, a form of Speaking of Courage became one of twenty-two stories included in The Things They Carried, a sequence of interrelated stories that has been heralded as one of the finest volumes of fiction about the Vietnam War. In this version, the protagonist’s name is changed to Norman Bowker, after the story’s initial inspiration.
First Edition Identification and Notes
Speaking of Courage was
first published as its own story in the Massachusetts Review during the summer
of 1976. In 1980, Neville Publishing put out the first edition of Speaking of
Courage in book form in 1980.
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SPEAKING OF COURAGE
by O'BRIEN, Tim
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Santa Barbara, CA: Neville Publishing, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine as issued, without dustwrapper. Copy Z of 26 lettered and SIGNED copies bound in full black leather of a total edition of 326 of this chapter originally intended for O'Brien's prize- winning GOING AFTER CACCIATO but left out and first published here. It was incorporated in altered form… Read more
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SPEAKING OF COURAGE.
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SANTA BARBARA: NEVILLE.. Fine. 1980. First Edition. SIGNED Limited Edition. One of 300 numbered copies. About fine in green cloth, in the clear unprinted acetate wrapper which has a quarter-size chip at the upper righthand corner of front cover. (Tiny spot at top edge) A chapter from "Going After Cacciato" which was never incorporated into the… Read more
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Santa Barbara: Neville Publishing, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine as issued, without dustwrapper. One of 300 numbered and SIGNED copies of a total edition of 326 of this chapter originally intended for O'Brien's prize- winning GOING AFTER CACCIATO but left out and first published here. It was incorporated in altered form in THE THINGS THEY CARRIED.
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Speaking of Courage.
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Santa Barbara: Neville,, 1980.. First edition.. 20 pp. Fine in full cloth with printed cover and spine labels. One of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by O’Brien. A chapter intended for his novel GOING AFTER CACCIATO, but ending up having a life of its own as a separate story.
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Speaking of Courage
by O'Brien, Tim
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Santa Barbara: Neville Publishing, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition, #171 of 300 signed copies. Near fine in olive cloth with faint offsetting to flower front panel. Vietnam literature. Signed by Author.
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Speaking of Courage
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Santa Barbara: Neville, 1980. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Slightest sunning to the spine, still easily fine without dustwrapper as issued. One of 300 numbered copies Signed by the author. A post-war story originally written as a chapter for *Going After Cacciato*.
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Speaking of Courage
by Tim O'Brien
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- 1980
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Neville, 1980. Limited. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket. #36/300cc. Signed by O'Brien. Covers sunned.
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Speaking of Courage
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Santa Barbara: Neville. 1980. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. No 130 of /300 hand-numbered copies signed by the author. Very good+ with foxing to front and rear blanks as well as paper spine label. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 20 pp .
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