Winner of the 2021 Veterans Writing Award
Brian O’Hare is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and former U.S. Marine Corps officer. Currently, he’s an award-winning writer and filmmaker living in Los Angeles. His work has appeared in War, Literature and the Arts, Santa Fe Writers Project, and Hobart, and has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes. He was recently named a Writing Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
It's time to add Surrender to the canon, and time to finally give
up the macho myths it interrogates.-- "Adam Straus, The Hopkins
Review"
It's fiction but it feels so authentic, real even. Surrender is one
of those books that earns its spot on the shelf so you can revisit
it, time and time again.-- "We Are The Mighty"
Surrender is one of the most honest, scarifying, fierce and
fearless collections I have read in forever. O'Hare writes with a
lean, hard-earned authenticity that manages to be at once brutal,
high-impact and hilarious--sometimes in the same sentence.-- "Jerry
Stahl, author of Permanent Midnight: A Memoir"
O'Hare is a real deal storyteller. From suburban sports fields, to
overseas Marine Corps bases, to the fields of combat, he expertly
dissects the complications of boyhood, manhood and military
service. Unabashedly emotional and deeply human, Surrender
beautifully orchestrates the art of war and warriors.-- "Anthony
Swofford, author of Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of War and Other
Battles"
O'Hare's Surrender crackles with not only the gunfire of combat but
the livewire sparks of human emotions. His characters, led by the
war-haunted Marine Lieutenant Francis Keane, are as authentic as
they come: they ache and groan and break into pieces only to
rebuild themselves, shard by shard. This fiction is the stuff of
real life. These pages breathe, my friends.-- "David Abrams, author
of Brave Deeds"
What does it mean to be a man? It's a good (and complicated)
question, but Brian O'Hare's collection, Surrender, can stand with
Hemingway's Nick Adams stories and the work of Andre Dubus in those
writers' attempt to illuminate the cost and fragility of that
answer. These stories are not long, but each is a jab to the
heart.-- "Jim Krusoe, author of The Sleep Garden"
Surrender is written in delightful, incisive prose bursting with
humanity. It is deeply observed and emotionally powerful, sharp on
both the cultural mores of young men and on the deeper consequences
of what happens when that mixes with American military power. And
each story boasts richly imagined characters that live on in the
mind long after you've finished reading-- "Phil Klay, author of
Redeployment, winner of the National Book Award"
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