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The Things They Carried

by Tim O'Brien

Synopsis

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.

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Book Information

Copyright year 1989
ISBN-13 9780618706419
ISBN-10 0618706410
Class Copyright
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Subject Fiction
File Size 106 MB
Number of Pages 256
Length of Recording 7
Shelf No. KY830
Grade Range 9-
Ages 14-
Lexile 880L
Curriculums EngageNY 2016, Savvas myPerspectives, HMH Into Literature Trademarks