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9781496846488: Conversations with Tim O'Brien
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ISBN 10: 1496846486 ISBN 13: 9781496846488
Casa editrice: University Press of Mississippi, 2023

Sinossi

On the strength of a National Book Award for his novel Going After Cacciato and a widely acclaimed short-story cycle, The Things They Carried, 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, and seven books of fiction—the sixteen interviews and profiles in Conversations with Tim O’Brien explore common themes, with subtle differences. Looming large is the experience of Vietnam and its influence as well as O’Brien’s youth in Minnesota and the expectations of a midwestern upbringing. Interviews allowed the writer to fully examine the shifting boundaries of truth and identity, memory, and imagination in fiction; the role of war in society; gender issues; and the craft of writing. O’Brien approaches each of these topics and a host of others with a directness and an evident passion that will resonate with both readers and prospective writers.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Patrick A. Smith is professor of English at Bainbridge State College in Bainbridge, Georgia. His previous books and edited collections include “The True Bones of My Life”: Essays on the Fiction of Jim Harrison; Tim O’Brien: A Critical Companion; and Conversations with William Gibson, the latter published by University Press of Mississippi.

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Editore
University Press of Mississippi
Data di pubblicazione
2023
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1496846486
ISBN 13 
9781496846488
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
236
Redattore
Smith Patrick A.
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
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ISBN 10:  1617036781 ISBN 13:  9781617036781
Casa editrice: Univ Pr of Mississippi, 2012
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