Alex Vernon is associate professor of English at Hendrix College. He is the author of Soldiers Once and Still: Ernest Hemingway, James Salter, and Tim O'Brien; On Tarzan; Most Succinctly Bred; and The Eyes of Orion: Five Tank Lieutenants in the Persian Gulf War. He is the editor of Arms and the Self: War, the Military, and Autobiographical Writing. Catherine Calloway is professor of English at Arkansas State University. She is a regular contributor to American Literary Scholarship: An Annual and has published widely on Vietnam War literature, especially on the work of O'Brien, and in such forms as Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, Tampa Review, Bulletin of Bibliography, and essay collections.
"This plurality among contributors and potential readers offsets
any redundancy in the target texts. Without question, Carried,
Cacciato, andLake of the Woods deserve most of the attention
because they are O'Brien's strongest books, and his questions of
reliability and war fiction his most enduring concerns. These are
the issues most pressing for students in an era of two wars and the
twenty-four-hour news cycle, and the outlying methods provide
enough diversity to make Approaches an effective tool for
introducing the author to a range of educational contexts."
--Joseph George, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
"This new Approaches collection is both for aficionados of Tim
O'Brien (and Vietnam literature) and for those with somewhat
broader literary interests. I have nothing but glowing praise for
its substantial achievement." --David Jarraway, University of
Ottawa
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