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  • Buffalo for the Broken Heart

    Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch

    de Dan O'Brien ...
    For twenty years Dan O’Brien struggled to make ends meet on his cattle ranch in South Dakota. But when a neighbor invited him to lend a hand at the annual buffalo roundup, O’Brien was inspired to convert his own ranch, the Broken Heart, to buffalo. Starting with thirteen calves, “short-necked, golden balls of wool,” O’Brien embarked on a journey that returned buffalo to his land for the first time ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • A Story that Happens

    On Playwriting, Childhood, & Other Traumas

    de Dan O'Brien ...
    Drawing on O’Brien’s experience of cancer and of childhood abuse, and on his ongoing collaboration with a war reporter, the four essays in A Story that Happens—first written as craft lectures for the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the US Air Force Academy—offer hard-won insights into what stories are for and the reasons why, "afraid and hopeful," we begin to tell them. ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • From Scarsdale

    A Childhood

    de Dan O'Brien ...
    From Scarsdale is an evocative and lyrical memoir of a haunted childhood in Scarsdale, New York.With a cancer diagnosis in his early forties, the author is compelled to revisit and resolve the mystery of his family’s sadness. The fourth of six children in an Irish-American household distinctly out-of-place in this affluent suburb of New York City, O’Brien grows up in a claustrophobic milieu of ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Wild Idea

    Buffalo and Family in a Difficult Land

    de Dan O’Brien ...
    For more than forty years the prairies of South Dakota have been Dan O’Brien’s home. Working as a writer and an endangered species biologist, he became convinced that returning free-roaming buffalo to the grasslands would return natural balance to the region and reestablish the undulating prairie lost through poor land management and overzealous farming. In 1998 he bought his first buffalo and ... Leer más

    Antes $25.99 USD Ahora $17.99 USD

  • True Story: A Trilogy

    de Dan O'Brien ...
    Series series American Literature
    True Story: A Trilogy gathers together three documentary plays by award-winning playwright and poet Dan O’Brien concerning trauma, both political and personal. The Body of an American speaks to a moment in history when a single, stark photograph—of a US Army Ranger dragged from the wreckage of a Blackhawk helicopter through the streets of Mogadishu—altered the course of global events. In a story ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge

    de Dan O'Brien ...
    An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge, 2nd Edition guides the reader through the key issues and debates in contemporary epistemology. Lucid, comprehensive and accessible, it is an ideal textbook for students who are new to the subject and for university undergraduates.The book is divided into five parts. Part I discusses the concept of knowledge and distinguishes between different types of ... Leer más

    $28.00 USD

  • Survivor's Notebook

    Poems

    de Dan O'Brien ...
    A collection of prose poems that chronicles the family life of two cancer survivors.Dan O’Brien’s powerful companion to Our Cancers catalogs the recovery of a cancer survivor, whose wife has recently survived her own cancer, as he returns to his daily life while raising a young daughter. This prose-poem sequence is a true survivor’s notebook, using photos and the tools of memoir to evoke how ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Our Cancers

    Poems

    de Dan O'Brien ...
    Poet and playwright Dan O’Brien chronicles the year and a half during which both he and his wife were treated for cancer.On the fourteenth anniversary of 9/11—an event that caused their downtown apartment to become “suffused with the World Trade Center’s carcinogenic dust”—Dan O’Brien’s wife discovers a lump in her breast. Surgery and chemotherapy soon follow, and on the day of his wife’s final ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The House in Scarsdale

    A Memoir for the Stage

    de Dan O'Brien ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Winner of the 2018 PEN America Award in DramaAs Tolstoy said, “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”In The House in Scarsdale, playwright Dan O'Brien traces the roots of his family's particular unhappiness to learn why his parents and siblings cut him off years ago. The more Dan learns about his family, the more mysterious the circumstances surrounding their ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Body of an American

    de Dan O'Brien ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Mogadishu, 1993. Paul is a Canadian photojournalist who is about to take a picture that will win him the Pulitzer Prize. Princeton, the present day, Dan is an American writer who is struggling to finish his play about ghosts. Both men live worlds apart but a chance encounter over the airwaves sparks an extraordinary friendship that sees them journey from some of the most dangerous places on earth ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • The Angel in the Trees and Other Monologues

    de Dan O'Brien ...
    A lapsed academic haunted by her past, and by an ambiguous angel, in the backwoods of the American South; a Midwestern widower dreams of returning to the Ireland of his youth; a heartsick cabbie auditions for his ex in a pub-theatre in Cork City; a schizophrenic grapples for freedom from the mother in his mind; three voices of the COVID-19 pandemic seek long-distance resolution and reunion. In ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Angel in the Trees and Other Monologues

    de Dan O'Brien ...
    A lapsed academic haunted by her past, and by an ambiguous angel, in the backwoods of the American South; a Midwestern widower dreams of returning to the Ireland of his youth; a heartsick cabbie auditions for his ex in a pub-theatre in Cork City; a schizophrenic grapples for freedom from the mother in his mind; three voices of the COVID-19 pandemic seek long-distance resolution and reunion. In ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus