The Things They Carried (US)

The Things They Carried Paperback – January 1, 2009 by Tim O'Brien (Author), US.

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.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 256 pages
• Dimensions 135 x 201 x 20mm | 204g
• Publication date 01 Jan 2009
• Publisher Houghton Mifflin
• Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
• Publication City/Country Boston, United States
• Language English
• ISBN10 0618706410
• ISBN13 9780618706419