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How to Revise a True War Story

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

How to Revise a True War Story

By John K. Young

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About the book

"You can tell a true war story if you just keep on telling it," Tim O'Brien writes in The Things They Carried. Widely regarded as the most important novelist to come out of the American war in Viet Nam, O'Brien has kept on telling true war stories not only in narratives that cycle through multiple fictional and nonfictional versions of the war's defining experiences, but also by rewriting those stories again and again. Key moments of revision extend from early drafts, to the initial appearance o...Show more

Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

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ISBN

9781609384678

Publisher

University of Iowa Press

Published year

2017

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1

Original title

How to Revise a True War Story

Format

Paperback

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