The Nuclear Age

Copyright

Portions of this novel appeared in different form in The Atlantic, Esquire, Ploughshares, and The Pushcart Prize 1985. The author wishes to thank the editors of those publications and to express gratitude for support received from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.

The principal characters and incidents in this book are wholly imagined. By and large, the author has tried to remain faithful to the flow of public events between the years 1945 and 1995, but on occasion it has seemed appropriate to amend history, most conspicuously by addition. What is important, the author believes, is not what happened, but what could have happened, and, in some cases, should have happened.

THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK

PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC.

Copyright © 1979, 1980, 1983, 1985 by Tim O’Brien

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Distributed by Random House, Inc., New York.

Those Were the Days: Words and music by Gene Raskin; TRO © Copyright 1962 and 1968 Essex Music Inc., New York, New York

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

O’Brien, Tim.

The nuclear age.

I. Title.

PS3565.B75N8 1985 813′.54 85-40211

eISBN: 978-0-307-82968-9

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