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Full 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
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
