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Tim O'Brien A Critical Companion
Patrick A. Smith
ISBN: 0-313-33055-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-33055-1
200 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 6/30/2005
List Price: $51.95 (UK Sterling Price: £35.95)
Availability: Print on demand
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: After growing up in Minnesota and graduating from college, Tim O'Brien received a draft notice and joined the war effort in Vietnam. He chronicled his combat experiences in his memoir If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home, and then went on to write the eight novels that are discussed in this volume. The novels reflect their characters' struggle with the effects of place, namely small-town America, in the Vietnam Era.

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Works included in this volume:
If I Die in a Combat Zone
Northern Lights
Going After Cacciato
The Nuclear Age
The Things They Carried
In the Lake of the Woods
Tomcat in Love
July, July
Table of Contents:
  • Series Foreword by Katherine Gregory Klein
    The Words Are All: A Brief Biography of Tim O'Brien
    Creating Art from the Ashes of War: Context and Style in O'Brien's Fiction
    If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home (1973)
    Northern Lights (1975)
    Going After Cacciato (1978)
    The Nuclear Age (1985)
    The Things They Carried (1990)
    In the Lake of the Woods (1994)
    Tomcat in Love (1998)
    July, July
    Bibliography
    Index
About the Author: Patrick A. Smith holds a B.A. in English from Penn State University and a Ph.D. in American Literature from Ohio University. He is Assistant Professor of English at Bainbridge College. His criticism, fiction, articles, interviews, and reviews have appeared in Quarter After Eight, Scribner's American Writers, Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature, Sports Afield, Studies in Short Fiction, Notes on Contemporary Literature, and January Magazine, among other publications.
LCC Class: 813
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