DAD’S MAYBE BOOK
Tim O’Brien

Copyright

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Excerpt from A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway published by Arrow Books © 2011; From The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway published by Vintage © 1999; From A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway published by Arrow Books © 2004; From Death in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway published by Vintage © 2000; From Hemingway on War by Ernest Hemingway published by Vintage © 2014; From The Essential Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway published by Vintage © 2004. All reproduced by permission of The Random House Group Ltd.

Excerpt from Poems by Elizabeth Bishop published by Chatto & Windus © 2011. Reproduced by permission of The Random House Group Ltd.

Excerpt from ‘Seaside Golf’, from Collected Poems, by John Betjeman © 1955, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1968, 1970, 1979, 1981, 1982, 2001. Reproduced by permission of John Murray, an imprint of Hodder and Stoughton Ltd.

Excerpt from ‘Hugh Selwyn Mauberley’ by Ezra Pound © Faber and Faber Ltd/New Directions.

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Source ISBN: 9780008372491

Ebook Edition © October 2019 ISBN: 9780008372477

Version: 2020-08-18

Dedication

For Tad, Timmy, and Meredith O’Brien

Epigraph

An entry from our babysitter’s journal, January 8, 2008: “You have never lived till you see a two-year-old fall in the toilet.”

And there goes Tad, running through a heavy rain on Rue Malar in Paris, clutching a child’s umbrella, carefully splashing down in each available puddle. After a time, he lifts the umbrella over Meredith’s head and says, “You are my sunshine, even when it’s raining.”

Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

1. A Letter to My Son

2. A Maybe Book (I)

3. Row, Row

4. Skin

5. Trusting Story

6. First Words

7. Home School

8. The Best of Times

9. Highballs

10. Spelling Lesson

11. Home School

12. Hygiene

13. The Magic Show (I)

14. Abashment

15. Sushi

16. Pride (I)

17. Balance

18. Child’s Play

19. Telling Tales (I)

20. Telling Tales (II)

21. Pride (II)

22. What If?

23. Home School

24. Home School

25. The Old Testament

26. Timmy and Tad and Papa and I (I)

27. The Language of Little Boys

28. Home School

29. Turkey Capital of the World

30. Pride (III)

31. Pacifism

32. Timmy and Tad and Papa and I (II)

33. Home School

34. Home School

35. Easier Homework

36. Timmy’s Bedroom Door

37. Lip Kissing

38. The King of Slippery

39. Timmy and Tad and Papa and I (III)

40. Timmy’s Gamble

41. Dulce et Decorum Est

42. Pride (IV)

43. War Buddies

44. A Maybe Book (II)

45. The Magic Show (II)

46. Practical Magic

47. An Immodest and Altogether Earnest Proposal

48. The Golden Viking

49. Timmy and Tad and Papa and I (IV)

50. Getting Cut

51. Home School

52. Home School

53. The Debating Society

54. Sushi, Sushi, Sushi

55. Timmy and Tad and Papa and I (V)

56. Into the Volcano

57. And into the Stew Pot

58. Lesson Plans

59. Tad’s Literary Advice

60. One Last Lesson Plan

Notes on Sources

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Also by Tim O’Brien

About the Publisher

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