Trade paperback edition in very good condition.
“They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing—these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. They carried shameful memories. They carried the common secret of cowardice…Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.”
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 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.
*Banned for profanity and vulgarity, graphic violence, and sexual content.
Read Alikes for The Things They Carried: Going After Cacciato by Tim O’Brien; The Sorrow of War by Ba0 Ninh; Dispatches by Michael Herr; Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes; Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Trade paperback edition in very good condition.
“They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing—these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. They carried shameful memories. They carried the common secret of cowardice…Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.”
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 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.
*Banned for profanity and vulgarity, graphic violence, and sexual content.
Read Alikes for The Things They Carried: Going After Cacciato by Tim O’Brien; The Sorrow of War by Ba0 Ninh; Dispatches by Michael Herr; Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes; Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
ISBN 978-0-618-70641-9
Tim O’Brien
1990
Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize Winner
