A Trauma Artist examines how O'Brien's works variously rewrite his own traumatization during the war in Vietnam as a never-ending fiction that paradoxically "recovers" personal experience by both recapturing and (re)disguising it. Mark Heberle considers O'Brien's career as a wri…
Based on recent conversations with Tim O'Brien, previously published interviews, and new readings of all his works -- including "Tomcat in Love" -- this book is the first study to concentrate on the role and representation of trauma as the central focus of all O'Brien's works. -…
A Trauma Artist examines how O'Brien's works variously rewrite his own traumatization during the war in Vietnam as a never-ending fiction that paradoxically "recovers" personal experience by both recapturing and (re)disguising it. Mark Heberle considers O'Brien's career as a wri…