Soldiers Once and Still: Ernest Hemingway, James Salter, and Tim O'Brien

By Alex Vernon

Book Overview

As the world enters a new century, as it embarks on new wars and sees new developments in the waging of war, reconsiderations of the last centuryOCOs legacy of warfare are necessary to our understanding of the current world order. In Soldiers Once and Still, Alex Vernon looks back through the twentieth century in order to confront issues of self and community in veteransOCO literature, exploring how war and the military have shaped the identities of Ernest Hemingway, James Salter, and Tim OOCOBrien, three of the twentieth centuryOCOs most respected authors. Vernon specifically explores the various ways war and the military, through both cultural and personal experience, have affected social and gender identities and dynamics in each authorOCOs work."

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877458863
• ISBN13: 9780877458869
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.4"