Dad’s Maybe Book. Tim O’Brien

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СКАЧАТЬ 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

       1

      

       A Letter to My Son

      Dear Timmy,

      A little more than a year ago, on June 20, 2003, you dropped into the world, my son, my first and only child—a surprise, a gift, an eater of electrical cords, a fertilizer factory, a pain in the ass, and a thrill in the heart.

      Here’s the truth, Timmy. Boy, oh, boy, do I love you. And, boy, do I wish I could spend the next fifty or sixty years with my lips to your cheek, my eyes warming in yours.

      But as you wobble into your sixteenth month, it occurs to me that you may never really know your dad. The actuarial stuff looks grim. Even now, I’m what they call an “older father,” and in ten years, should I have the good luck to turn sixty-eight, I’ll almost certainly have trouble keeping up with СКАЧАТЬ