O'Brien

Bonnie Surfus (ENG) surfus at chuma.cas.usf.edu
Fri Jun 14 22:40:49 CDT 1996


On Fri, 14 Jun 1996, Aaron Yeater wrote:

> While i agree with previous contributors that Tim O'Brien is an 
> excellent writer writing about Vietnam, i'm not sure he (or anyone 
> else) has yet to produce the "great vietnam war novel".  Cacciato, 
> The Things they Carried and In the Lake of the Woods all are about a 
> people who were in Vietnam, but his best writing is about characters 
> dealing with the aftermath of Vietnam--Stone's "Dog Soldiers" is much 



huh?
We didn't read the same book, I guess.






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