o'brien, tim

Presents vital information on the most-studied short stories at the high school and early-college levels. Each entry contains author biography, plot summary, characters, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.

Presents vital information on the most-studied short stories at the high school and early-college levels. Each entry contains author biography, plot summary, characters, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.

Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Tim O'Brien.

Award-winning author Tim O'Brien offers a collection of essays he wrote to pass down to his two young sons over the course of fifteen years reflecting on family memories, offering advice for life, telling them about their parents, and expressing his love for them. Includes black-and-white photographs.

Provides background on the life of American novelist Tim O'Brien and his influences, features twenty-three articles that explore war in his novel "The Things They Carried," and examines issues of war in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Provides background information, discussion questions, vocabulary, and activities for teaching Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried" in high school.

Explores how war and the military shaped the identities of Ernest Hemingway, James Salter, and Tim O'Brien, three of the twentieth century's most respected authors.