Tim O'Brien : a critical companion

Author(s)

• Smith, Patrick A.

Bibliographic Information

Tim O'Brien : a critical companion

Patrick A. Smith

（Critical companions to popular contemporary writers）

Greenwood Press, 2005

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-176) and index

Description and Table of Contents

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. 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

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Details

• NCID: BA72528577
• ISBN:
  • 0313330557
• LCCN: 2005007695
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Westport, Conn.
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 181 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PS3565.B75
  • DC22 : 813/.54
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : O'Brien, Tim, 1946- -- Criticism and interpretation
  • LCSH : Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Literature and the conflict
  • LCSH : War stories, American -- History and criticism
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA27946947