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The Things They Carried (Paperback)
$12.72 - Save $2.22 (14%) - RRP $14.94 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Things They CarriedSince its first publication, "The Things They Carried" has become an unparalleled Vietnam testament, a classic work of American literature, and a profound study of war that illuminates the capacity, and the limits, of the human heart and soul.
Full description- Publisher: Mariner Books
- Published: 13 October 2009
- Format: Paperback 246 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Military Fiction | Short Stories
- ISBN 13: 9780618706419 ISBN 10: 0618706410
- Sales rank: 3,398
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Full description for The Things They Carried
A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, "The Things They Carried" is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. "The Things They Carried" depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O'Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. Taught everywhere--from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writing--it has become required reading for any American and continues to challenge readers in their perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, courage and fear and longing. "The Things They Carried" won France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize; it was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
