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About This Book:

Title: The Things They Carried

Other Available Formats:
Hardcover, 1990
Paperback, 1991
Audio Cassette, 1991
Reinforced Hardcover, 1998
Paperback, 1999
Prebinding, 1999
Paperback, 2002
Paperback, 2009

Synopsis
A collection of short story-like episodes about the lives of a group of footsoldiers in Vietnam: their present existence in the alien jungle, their childhoods, and their futures in America after the war is long over.

Details
Language:        English

Size
Length:        256 Pages



Publisher Notes
First Line: First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey.




Industry Reviews
"'The Things They Carried'...is one of the finest books, fact or fiction, written about the Vietnam War."
"...O'Brien plays with the embattled terrain of a soldier's memory, with his embellishments of memories in conscious reconstructions--stories told, then corrected--to startling and intriguing effects in narrative and language."
(August 1999)
"A classic work of lyrical fiction that reveals how it felt to be an American soldier in the booby-trapped jungles of Vietnam and to live afterwards haunted by that memory."
(Winter 1999)
"Tim O'Brien hasn't forgotten; his brilliant story 'The Things They Carried' remains for many the definitive fictional work on the Vietnam War. A collection of linked stories about a platoon of soldiers with 'no sense of strategy or mission' regarding the war they are part of, the book is sewn up airtight by O'Brien using his real, younger self, who served as an infantryman in Vietnam, as one of the characters."
(May/June 1995)


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Book Details Summary: The title of this book is The Things They Carried and it was written by Tim O'Brien. This edition of The Things They Carried is in a Hardcover format. This books publish date is March 2010 and it has a suggested retail price of $24. There are 256 pages in the book and it was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. The 10 digit ISBN is 054739117X and the 13 digit ISBN is 9780547391175. For the most current lowest price, Click Here.