The Nuclear Age
by Tim O'Brien
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Author: Tim O'BrienEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1996-12-01
ISBN: 0140259104
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Book Review: "The Nuclear Age", by Tim O'Brien is not his best book.
Summary: 1 Stars
The Nuclear Age is a confusing and rambling mass of far flung happenings all related to the Vietnam War. The lead character, William is afraid to go in the army after being drafted and runs away, with his parents permission, to the underground. His crazy, mixed up, unfaithful girlfriend from college helps him hideout. Sarah is by far the biggest tease and most unfaithful woman I've ever had the displeasure to meet in a book or anywhere else. Prior to this, William goes to a therapist after being "constipated" and acting crazy at home growing up. The constipation is a symbol that Mr. O'Brien uses frequently in the book and can only mean that William is a soiled and pathetic human being. William is a boy, not a man and stays around to take abuse from Sarah who gets him in real trouble with this underground group of hostile and nasty people. The women he goes with are dysfunctional and his wife, Bobbi, writes nasty poems to him and leaves them around for him to read. So, he digs a fallout shelter is escape it all. He hopes a nuke will destroy the world he is afraid to live in. The scene where he is with the radical underground paints a picture of abuse and meanness, which William tolerates. It's never clear how all of this relates to the war or anything else. Mr' O'Brien may be saying that he personally was better off in the army and in Nam then running away. I doubt that his picture of the underground is accurate. I hope these men and women are not based on real people. Even if they're not I have to wonder about Mr. O'Brien anyway for thinking of them. I do not recommend this messy and "constipated" book.
Tom King
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