How to Revise a True War Story: Tim O'Brien's Process of Textual Production

by John K. Young

"You can tell a true war story if you just keep on telling it," Tim O'Brien writes in The Things They Carried. Widely regarded as the most important novelist to come out of the American war in Viet Nam, O'Brien has kept on telling true war stories not only in narratives that cycle through multiple fictional and non-fictional versions of the war's defining experiences, but also by rewriting those stories again and again. Key moments of revision...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609384679
• ISBN13: 9781609384678
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"