The Things They Carried by Tim O’brien

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The million-copy bestseller, which is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling.

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The Things They Carried by Tim O’brien

The million-copy bestseller, which is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. ‘The Things They Carried’ is, on its surface, a sequence of award-winning stories about the madness of the Vietnam War; at the same time it has the cumulative power and unity of a novel, with recurring characters and interwoven strands of plot and theme. But while Vietnam is central to ‘The Things They Carried’, it is not simply a book about war. It is also a book about the human heart – about the terrible weight of those things we carry through our lives.

‘One of the best war books of this century, an unflinching attempt to illuminate both its obscene physical brutality and the terrible mental overload’ Guardian

‘A thrilling and beautiful distillation of everything that has been thought, felt, or said about the Vietnam War and its long afterburnA heartbreaking and healing masterpiece; time will make it a classic’ Michael Herr, author of Dispatches

‘Essential…O’Brien captures the war’s pulsating rhythms and nerve-racking dangers…a stunning performance. The overall effect of these original tales is devastating’ New York Times

Tim O’Brien received the National Book Award for Going After Cacciato. Among his books are The Things They Carried, Pulitzer Finalist and a New York Times Book of the Century, and In the Lake of the Woods, winner of the James Fenimore Cooper Prize. He was awarded the Pritzker Literature Award for lifetime achievement in military writing.

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ISBN 13 9780006543947
ISBN 10 0006543944
Title The Things They Carried
Author Tim O'brien
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Binding type Paperback
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Year published 1991-07-25
Number of pages 256
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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