Tim Obrien

Informationen zum Autor Patrick A. Smith Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Tim O'Brien's first-hand experiences fighting in the Vietnam War are reflected in his many popular fiction novels! which are examined in this companion to his works. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Smith, Patrick A. Smith, Smith Patrick A.
• Publisher: Greenwood Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2005
• EAN: 9780313330551
• ISBN: 978-0-313-33055-1
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers; Critical Companions to Popular; Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; USA, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, The arts, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: general