The Siege of Trencher's Farm complex examination of modern-day masculinity and liberal values." "Slant Magazine" found that "Much of the novel's prose reads like a screenplay, with tedious descriptions of props, settings, and physical actions ... tension only really matters if you identify with the characters and care about their predicament, which I found too implausible, fantastic, and crudely sketched to do so." Legal scholar Melanie Williams wrote of how the 1971 film had coloured reception of the book: "The book is now republished by Bloomsbury (2003), with the title "Straw Dogs". This seems particularly sad given that past critical commentary on the book has
Robert O'Connor (author) Army, which was particularly salient after the September 11 attacks. Robert O'Connor (author) Robert O'Connor (born 1959) is an American novelist, hailed as one of the most promising young American novelists and the author of a novel, "Buffalo Soldiers", the basis for the 2001 movie of the same name. O'Connor received a B.A. in English/Writing Arts from the State University of New York at Oswego, and an M.A. in English from Syracuse University. He currently teaches Advanced Fiction and Intermediate Screenwriting at SUNY Oswego. He is the author of a novel, 1993's "Buffalo Soldiers", which was adapted into the film