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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2012]
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| Series: | Literary conversations series.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxiii, 210 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781621039167 (electronic bk.) 1621039161 (electronic bk.) 128385094X (electronic bk.) 9781283850940 (electronic bk.) |