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Librarian Note: There are many authors with the name John O'Brien. This profile contains various authors. See below for disambiguated authors.

John O'Brien, Author of Leaving Las Vegas
John O'Brien, Children's Book Author & Illustrator
John O'Brien, Pseudonym of Patrick Joseph Hartigan, Poet
John O'Brien, Pioneer of Person Centered Planning
John O'Brien, Co-Founder and Editor of Review of Contemporary Fiction

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Average rating: 3.93 · 930 ratings · 159 reviews · 108 distinct works

	At Home in the Heart of Appalachia 3.79 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Mistakes That Worked: 40 Familiar Inventions & How They Came to Be 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	My rating:
	Polish Robbin' Hoods: The Inside Story of the Panczko Brothers, the World's Busiest Burglars 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1992	My rating:
	Milan Kundera and Feminism: Dangerous Intersections 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Review of Contemporary Fiction: Special Fiction Issue; Or the Whale by John O'Brien (Editor), John O' Brien (Series Editor) 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	The Review of Contemporary Fiction: Writings from Postcommunist Romania by John O'Brien (Editor), John O' Brien (Series Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Half Life 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1997	My rating:
	Chicago Heist by John O'Brien, Edward Baumann 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1981	My rating:
	The Review of Contemporary Fiction: Stanley Elkin/Alasdair Gray 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010	My rating:
	Too Many Sisters 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:

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“That which begins will also end.”
― John O'Brien, Leaving Las Vegas

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“There will always be dark characters, but her life is good; it is as she wishes it to be.”
― John O'Brien, Leaving Las Vegas

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“His point was made, and he moved along, in keeping with the tangential nature that must consume at least one of them. There is a bottle in his future--perhaps sooner a glass--elsewhere on the line.”
― John O'Brien, Leaving Las Vegas

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