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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 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 everywherefrom high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writingit 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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Publisher : Mariner Books Classics
Publication date : October 13, 2009
Language : English
Print length : 233 pages
ISBN-10 : 0618706410
ISBN-13 : 978-0618706419
Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
Reading age : 14 years and up
Dimensions : 5.31 x 0.62 x 8 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #424 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #9 in War Fiction (Books) #10 in Contemporary Literature & Fiction #30 in Classic Literature & Fiction
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