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Copyright
4th Estate
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This eBook first published in Great Britain by 4th Estate in 2019
Copyright © Tim O’Brien 2019
Cover photograph © Tim O’Brien
Tim O’Brien asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Information on previously published material appears here.
Excerpt from A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway published by Arrow Books © 2011; From The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway published by Vintage © 1999; From A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway published by Arrow Books © 2004; From Death in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway published by Vintage © 2000; From Hemingway on War by Ernest Hemingway published by Vintage © 2014; From The Essential Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway published by Vintage © 2004. All reproduced by permission of The Random House Group Ltd.
Excerpt from Poems by Elizabeth Bishop published by Chatto & Windus © 2011. Reproduced by permission of The Random House Group Ltd.
Excerpt from ‘Seaside Golf’, from Collected Poems, by John Betjeman © 1955, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1968, 1970, 1979, 1981, 1982, 2001. Reproduced by permission of John Murray, an imprint of Hodder and Stoughton Ltd.
Excerpt from ‘Hugh Selwyn Mauberley’ by Ezra Pound © Faber and Faber Ltd/New Directions.
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Source ISBN: 9780008372491
Ebook Edition © October 2019 ISBN: 9780008372477
Version: 2020-08-18
Dedication
For Tad, Timmy, and Meredith O’Brien
Epigraph
An entry from our babysitter’s journal, January 8, 2008: “You have never lived till you see a two-year-old fall in the toilet.”
And there goes Tad, running through a heavy rain on Rue Malar in Paris, clutching a child’s umbrella, carefully splashing down in each available puddle. After a time, he lifts the umbrella over Meredith’s head and says, “You are my sunshine, even when it’s raining.”
Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
1. A Letter to My Son
2. A Maybe Book (I)
3. Row, Row
4. Skin
5. Trusting Story
6. First Words
7. Home School
8. The Best of Times
9. Highballs
10. Spelling Lesson
11. Home School
12. Hygiene
13. The Magic Show (I)
14. Abashment
15. Sushi
16. Pride (I)
17. Balance
18. Child’s Play
19. Telling Tales (I)
20. Telling Tales (II)
21. Pride (II)
22. What If?
23. Home School
24. Home School
25. The Old Testament
26. Timmy and Tad and Papa and I (I)
27. The Language of Little Boys
28. Home School
29. Turkey Capital of the World
30. Pride (III)
31. Pacifism
32. Timmy and Tad and Papa and I (II)
33. Home School
34. Home School
35. Easier Homework
36. Timmy’s Bedroom Door
37. Lip Kissing
38. The King of Slippery
39. Timmy and Tad and Papa and I (III)
40. Timmy’s Gamble
41. Dulce et Decorum Est
42. Pride (IV)
43. War Buddies
44. A Maybe Book (II)
45. The Magic Show (II)
46. Practical Magic
47. An Immodest and Altogether Earnest Proposal
48. The Golden Viking
49. Timmy and Tad and Papa and I (IV)
50. Getting Cut
51. Home School
52. Home School
53. The Debating Society
54. Sushi, Sushi, Sushi
55. Timmy and Tad and Papa and I (V)
56. Into the Volcano
57. And into the Stew Pot
58. Lesson Plans
59. Tad’s Literary Advice
60. One Last Lesson Plan
Notes on Sources
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Also by Tim O’Brien
About the Publisher
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