A candid view of the American military establishment and the Vietnam conflict as witnessed by a foot soldier in the late sixties.
" So wrote The New York Times of Tim O'Brien's now classic novel of Vietnam. Winner of the 1979 National Book Award, Going After Cacciato captures the peculiar mixture of horror and hallucination that marked this strangest of wars.
In this book, O'Brien moves from soccer games to warfare to risqué lullabies, from alcoholism to magic shows to history lessons to bittersweet bedtime stories, but always returning to a father's soul-saving love for his sons. -- adapted ...
This book summary features: * Summary * Story Analysis * Character Analysis * Themes * Symbols & Motifs * Literary Devices * Important Quotes * Essay Topics Yes, if you feel you need more than a book review to decide whether to read If I ...
In O'Brien's dynamic first novel, a Vietnam vet and his brother vie for the same gal, a native of their dwindling Minnesota hometown. Culminating in a disastrous road trip which...
The Things They Carried won France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize; it was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
In 2008, Col. Gian Gentile exposed a growing rift among military intellectuals with an article titled “Misreading the Surge Threatens U.S. Army’s Conventional Capabilities,” that appeared in World Politics Review.
A “perceptive, affectionate, and often very funny” novel about old college friends at a thirty-year reunion, by the author of The Things They Carried (Boston Herald). From a National Book...
Among scholarly criticism, Milton J. Bates's “Tim O'Brien's Myth of Courage” (1987) examines O'Brien's stated purpose of denouncing the Vietnam War by interrogating If I Die's theory of courage, a topic that is obviously of central ...
In Tomcat in Love, Tim O'Brien takes on the battle of the sexes with astonishing results. By turns hilarious, outrageous, romantic, and deeply moving, this is one of the most talked about novels in years: a novel for this and every age.
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