Tim O'Brien: A Critical Companion

by Patrick A. Smith, Kathleen Gregory Klein (Editor)

After growing up in Minnesota and graduating from college, Tim O'Brien received a draft notice and joined the war effort in Vietnam. He chronicled his combat experiences in his memoir If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home , and then went on to write the eight novels that are discussed in this volume. The novels reflect their characters' struggle with the effects of place, namely small-town America, in the Vietnam Era.

200 pages, Hardcover

First published June 30, 2005

About the author

Patrick A. Smith was 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, Conversations with Tim O'Brien, and Conversations with William Gibson, the latter two titles published by University Press of Mississippi.