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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 depic... read full description below.
Full details for this title
| Interest Age |
General Audience |
| Reading Age |
General Audience |
| Library of Congress |
Psychological fiction, War stories, Vietnam War, 1961-1975, Veterans, Audiobooks |
| NBS Text |
War Fiction |
| ONIX Text |
General/trade |
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| Dewey Code |
FIC |
| Catalogue Code |
531133 |
Description of this Book
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.
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Author's Bio
Tim O'Brien received the 1979 National Book Award for Going After Cacciato. Among his other books are Tomcat in Love, If I Die in a Combat Zone, July, July, and In the Lake of the Woods, which received the James Fenimore Cooper Prize from the Society of American Historians and was named the best novel of 1994 by Time. O'Brien lives in Austin, Texas.
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