Conversations with Tim O'Brien /
On the strength of a National Book Award for his novel Going After Cacciato (1978) and a widely acclaimed short-story cycle, The Things They Carried (1990), Tim O'Brien (b. 1946) cemented his reputation as one of the most compelling chroniclers of Vietnam--and, in the process, was cast as a &qu...
Format: | Électronique eBook |
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Langue: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2012.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Résumé: | On the strength of a National Book Award for his novel Going After Cacciato (1978) and a widely acclaimed short-story cycle, The Things They Carried (1990), Tim O'Brien (b. 1946) cemented his reputation as one of the most compelling chroniclers of Vietnam--and, in the process, was cast as a "Vietnam writer." But to confine O'Brien to a single piece of ground or a particular style is to ignore the broad sweep of a career spanning nearly four decades. In addition to detailed discussions of all of O'Brien's work--a memoir, If I Die in a Combat Zone (1973), and seven books of fiction--the sixteen. |
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Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (240 pages). |
ISBN: | 9781621039167 |