In the Lake of the Woods (Magill Book Reviews)
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- Author: Tim O’Brien
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: 1960’s
- Locales: Vietnam
GOING AFTER CACCIATO (1979) and THE THINGS THEY CARRIED (1990) have been praised as two of the finest works of fiction focusing on the Vietnam War. In the latter book, O’Brien states that Vietnam veterans carried home with them “ghosts,” terrible memories and feelings of guilt about what had occurred in that tragic conflict. IN THE LAKE OF THE WOODS is also about ghosts, personal and national, and about the impossibility of escaping them. The central character, John Wade, participated in the My Lai atrocities in Vietnam. An amateur magician since his youth, Wade—nicknamed...
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