Books Like In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason | Suggesting Reading

In Country What Do I Read Next?

The soldiers interviewed by Al Santoli for his 1981 book Everything We Had: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Thirty-Three Soldiers Who Fought It tell the sort of short, focused, poignant tales of their experiences that the veterans in In Country come up with infrequently.

One of the best writers to emerge from the Vietnam experience is Tim O'Brien. His book The Things They Carried was many years in the making (it was published in 1990) and it uses a new form, neither really novel nor short story collection that reflects the uncertainty of life during war.

Many veterans of the Vietnam war have written of their experiences, giving Americans a wide opportunity to look at what their life was like. Vince Gotera has put together a book that examines one particular genre, poetry, in his 1994 collection Radical Visions: Poetry by Vietnam Veterans, published by...
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