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conversations.value: Give me a description for a book titled In the Lake of the Woods about Vietnam, John, Kathy with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction.
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conversations.value: the author has been writing about Vietnam in one way or another ever since he served there as an infantryman in the late 1960s. His earliest work on the subject, <a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/0440343119/${0}"> If I Die in a Combat Zone </a>, was an intensely personal memoir of his own tour of duty; his books since then have featured many of the same elements of fear, boredom, and moral ambiguity but in a fictional setting. In 1994 the author wrote In the Lake of the Woods , a novel that, while imbued with the troubled spirit of Vietnam, takes place entirely after the war and in the United States. The main character, John Wade, is a man in crisis: after spending years building a successful political career, he finds his future derailed during a bid for the U.S. Senate by revelations about his past as a soldier in Vietnam. The election lost by a landslide, John and his wife, Kathy, retreat to a small cabin on the shores of a Minnesota lake--from which Kathy mysteriously disappears.
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conversations.value: Give me a description for a book titled In the Lake of the Woods about Book, Award, DIV><P>TIM with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction.
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conversations.value: <DIV><P>TIM O&rsquo;BRIEN received the 1979 National Book Award for <I>Going After Cacciato</I>. Among his other books are <I>The Things They Carried,</I> Pulitzer Finalist and a <I>New York Times</I> Book of&#160;the Century,&#160;and <I>In the Lake of the Woods</I>, winner of the James Fenimore Cooper Prize. He was awarded the Pritzker Literature Award for lifetime achievement in military writing in 2013.</P></DIV>