![]() ![]() One of the most powerful stories, we thought, was of O’Brien’s struggle with whether or not to escape the draft in the first place by fleeing to Canada there is explicit death to come in Vietnam and trauma to be dealt with later, but somehow the imagining of what was to come was, for O’Brien, if not more distressing than the actual experience of it, than at least coloured with its own specific terror. O’Brien, who writes as himself, strings together stories about his experience of the war and that of the soldiers he fought with the same characters pop up in each of the stories and gradually an entire experience, a life, is teased out. ![]()
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