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1. Jan. 1994 · Tim O’Brien matriculated at Macalester College. Graduation in 1968 found him with a BA in political science and a draft notice. O’Brien was against the war but reported for service and was sent to Vietnam with what has been called the “unlucky” Americal division due to its involvement in the My Lai massacre in 1968, an event which figures prominently in In the Lake of the Woods.
John Waylan is a candidate for U.S. senator; near the end of the campaign he is accused of ordering and participating in a massacre in a Vietnamese village. The accusation kills his career, and severely endangers his marriage. When he and Kathy flee to an isolated cabin, he awakes one morning to find her gone.
In a cottage by Lake of the Woods, an area that contains a huge lake located between Canada and Minnesota, John and Kathy Wade, a married couple in their late thirties, try to heal their wounds after John’s devastating primary election loss. They are both unhappy, each for their own reasons, but they spend their evenings on the porch, pretending to buoy themselves up with talk of a better ...
Perhaps it suggests the discomfort of a storyteller who has, for the moment, slipped outside his story, except that outside his story is where Tim O'Brien has nearly always been, taking refuge -- as he says in his striking new novel, "In the Lake of the Woods" -- "in the fine line between biology and spirit," between some literal, if unknowable, truth and the truth whose only evidence is the ...
Books. In the Lake of the Woods. Tim O'Brien. Penguin Books, 1994 - Fiction - 303 pages. On a lake deep in Minnesota's north woods, John and Kathy Wade are trying to reassemble their lives. John, a rising political star, has just suffered a devastating electoral defeat. Kathy attempts to comfort her husband, but soon it becomes apparent that ...
One of the central themes of In the Lake of the Woods is the long-lasting effect that trauma has on people. John is the most obvious example of a man permanently scarred by trauma, from both the suicide of his father and his participation in the massacre at Thuan Yen. John survived both events by creating new realities and suppressing the truth.
Sheriff Arthur J. Lux. The local sheriff near Lake of the Woods who is responsible for investigating Kathy ’s disappearance. Lux remains largely neutral during his investigation, especially when compared with his colleague, Vincent Pearson. Nevertheless, he seems… read analysis of Sheriff Arthur J. Lux.
