The Things They Carried
Book by Tim O'Brien
Originally published: March 28, 1990
Author: Tim O'Brien
Genres: War story, Novel, and Psychological Fiction
Characters: Rat Kiley, Lieutenant Jimmy Cross, Norman Bowker, and more
ISBN: 0767902890
Pages: 233
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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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"The things they carried" opens with a narrative of what grunts in Vietnam physically carried based on the mission, the terrain and their personal preferences.
The letters weighed 10 ounces. They were signed Love, Martha, but Lieutenant Cross understood that Love was only a way of signing and did not mean what he ...
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The book is a collection of related short stories about the author's time as a soldier in Vietnam. It is a memoir of sorts, definitely antiwar. The author ...
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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 ...
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In the Lake of the Woods received the James Fenimore Cooper Prize from the Society of American Historians and was named the best novel of 1994 by Time. O'Brien ...
Mar 24, 2010 · More than two million copies of "The Things They Carried" have sold since 1990. It's been read and passed around by countless veterans from ...