The Things They Carried
Book by Tim O'Brien
Originally published: March 28, 1990
Author: Tim O'Brien
Genres: Novel, War story, and Psychological Fiction
Characters: Rat Kiley, Lieutenant Jimmy Cross, Norman Bowker, and more
ISBN: 0767902890
Pages: 233
The Things They Carried (1990) is a collection of linked short stories by American novelist Tim O'Brien, about a platoon of American soldiers fighting on ...
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It's a series of vignettes using the Vietnam War as a backdrop and drawing on the different soldiers to tell a series of separate stories loosely connected.
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They were signed Love, Martha, but Lieutenant Cross understood that Love was only a way of signing and did not mean what he sometimes pretended it meant. At ...
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Read 18.9k reviews from the world's largest community for readers. A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives sinc…
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The Things They Carried is an accomplished, gentle, lovely book.” ... “O'Brien's meditations--on war and memory, on darkness and light—suffuse the entire work ...
Far from a combat story of pride and glory, it is a compassionate tale of the American soldier, brimming with raw honesty and thoughtful reflection. The book's ...
Through vivid and evocative prose, O'Brien explores themes of death, trauma, and the enduring effects of war on the individuals who participate in it. O'Brien's ...
Mar 24, 2010 · Twenty years ago, writer Tim O'Brien released a book of stories about young men and war, his war, Vietnam. Among many other things, he listed ...
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Tim O'Brien comes back from war filled with stories that he shared with fellow soldiers in-country, stories that they shared to keep themselves alive while they ...