In the Lake of the Woods. Tim O’Brien

      TIM O’BRIEN

      

      In the Lake of the Woods

       Copyright

      HarperPress An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF

      First published in Great Britain by Flamingo 1995

      First published in the USA by

      Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence 1994

      Copyright © Tim O’Brien 1994

      The Author asserts the moral right to be

      identified as the author of this work

      Portions of this book have appeared, in substantially different form,

      in The Atlantic Monthly, Boston Magazine and Esquire

      The author is grateful for permission to quote from the following:

      ‘Shame’ by Robert Karen, Copyright © 1992 by Robert Karen, as first published in The Atlantic Monthly, February 1992; ‘Homeless My Lai Vet Killed in Booze Fight,’ from the Boston Herald, September 14, 1988, reprinted with permission of the Boston Herald.

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      is available from the British Library

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       Dedication

      FOR KATE

      Although this book contains material from the world in which we live, including references to actual places, people, and events, it must be read as a work of fiction. All dialogue is invented. Certain notorious and very real incidents have been altered or reimagined. John and Kathy Wade are creations of the author’s imagination, as are all of the characters who populate the state of Minnesota and the town of Angle Inlet in this novel.

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

       Excerpt

1 How Unhappy They Were

2 Evidence

3 The Nature of Loss

4 What He Remembered

5 Hypothesis

6 Evidence

7 The Nature of Marriage

8 How the Night Passed

9 Hypothesis

10 The Nature of Love

       11 What He Did Next

       12 Evidence

       13 The Nature of the Beast

       14 Hypothesis

       15 What the Questions Were

       16 Evidence

       17 The Nature of Politics

       18 Hypothesis

       19 What Was Found

       20 Evidence

       21 The Nature of the Spirit

       22 Hypothesis

       23 Where They Looked

       24 Hypothesis

       25 Evidence

       26 The Nature of the Dark

       27 Hypothesis

       28 How He Went Away

       29 The Nature of the Angle

       30 Evidence

       31 Hypothesis

       Keep