In the Lake of the Woods (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
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- Author: Tim O’Brien
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: 1960’s, Magic or magicians, Ghosts or apparitions, Midwest, 1980’s, Reality, Violence, Vietnam War, Ethics, Human behavior, Realism
- Locales: Vietnam, Minnesota
In the Lake of the Woods is also a novel concerning the Vietnam War. Although it shares many similar themes and stylistic choices with Going After Cacciato and The Things They Carried, it also introduces much more explicitly the American involvement in the massacres at My Lai and surrounding villages.
The book is the story of the disappearance of politician and Vietnam War veteran John Wade's wife Kathy while the couple is vacationing at an isolated cabin in the north woods of Minnesota. Wade has just been soundly defeated in a primary election for the...
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