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Scott A. Winkler

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in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, The United States
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Tim O'Brien, W.P. Kinsella, Khaled Hosseini, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henr ...more

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Stories save lives. I've long known this on a subconscious level, but it wasn't until I read Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried--and his story "The Lives of the Dead," in particular--that I realized the immensity of their potential. O'Brien "saves" the lives, albeit in fictional form, of men with whom he'd served in Vietnam through the stories in this timeless book, but in that particular story, O'Brien also saves the life of Linda, a nine year-old girl who dies of brain cancer--and he saves the life of Timmy as well, preserving the "everness" evident in the eyes of his nine year-old self looking back from a photograph at the forty-three year-old writer.

Call them magic. Call them literary slight of hand. Call them what you will, but stor
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Average rating: 4.3 · 20 ratings · 10 reviews · 2 distinct works
The Meadow: A Novel

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The Wide Turn Toward Home

3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions
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