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THE THINGS THEY CARRIED
By: Tim O'Brien
Houghton Mifflin Company
April 2010
On Sale: March 22, 2010
256 pages
ISBN: 054739117X
EAN: 9780547391175
Hardcover
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On the twentieth anniversary of its publication, The Things They Carried returns to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in paperback, with over two million copies in print. 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 OβBrien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. Taught everywhereβfrom high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writingβit 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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