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Tim O'Brien A Critical Companion
Patrick A. Smith
Book Code: GR3055
ISBN: 0-313-33055-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-33055-1
200 pages, photo
Greenwood Press
Publication: 6/30/2005
List Price: $51.95 (UK Sterling Price: £29.95)
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' struggles with the effects of place, namely small-town America, in the Vietnam Era. 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
    LC Card Number: 2005007695
    LCC Class: PS3565
    Dewey Class: 813
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