Tim O’Brien (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
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Tim O’Brien often blurs the boundaries between genres. He began his career as a journalist, and sections of reporting are often mixed with his fiction. He develops novels, such as Going After Cacciato (1978), around successful short stories. He interlocks short fictions so closely that collections can be read as novels, although their components are published individually as short stories, as with The Things They Carried. He also often walks with one foot in fiction and one foot in autobiography, as in his early work If I Die in a Combat...
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