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A great starting point for students seeking an introduction to Tim OBrien and the critical discussions surrounding his work. This collection brings together a selection of recent representative critical essays on OBrien from a variety of perspectives. After opening with several short introductory essays, the volume moves on to consider OBriens semi-autobiographical coverage of his experience in Vietnam and discusses OBriens most famous work, The Things They Carried, in addition to several of his other works. Each essay is 2,500 to 5,000 words in length, and all essays conclude with a list of Works Cited, along with endnotes. Finally, the volumes appendixes offer a section of useful reference resources A chronology of the authors life A complete list of the authors works and their original dates of publication A general bibliography A detailed paragraph on the volumes editor Notes on the individual chapter authors A subject index,.