Conversations with Tim O'Brien

Conversations with Tim O'Brien / edited by Patrick A. Smith.

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...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2012.
Series:Literary conversations series.
Subjects:
O'Brien, Tim, > 1946- > Interviews.
O'Brien, Tim, > 1946-
1900-1999
Authors, American > 20th century > Interviews.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > American > General.
Authors, American
Interviews
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxiii, 210 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781621039167
1621039161
128385094X
9781283850940
9781617036798
161703679X
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed Dec. 11, 2012).

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