Description: Format:PaperbackLanguage:EnglishISBN:0618706410ISBN13:9780618706419Release Date:January 2009Publisher:Mariner Books ClassicsLength:256 PagesWeight:0.85 lbs.Dimensions:0.8" x 5.3" x 7.9"Age Range:14 years and upGrade Range:Grade 9 and higher Book Overview"O'Brien has written a vital, important book--a book that matters not only to the reader interested in Vietnam, but to anyone interested in the craft of writing as well."--Michiko Kakutani, New York TimesA 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. The Things They Carried won France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize; it was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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Book Title: Things They Carried
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins
Topic: Psychological, Classics, War & Military, Short Stories (Single Author)
Publication Year: 2009
Item Height: 0.6 in
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 6.9 Oz
Item Length: 8 in
Author: Tim O'Brien
Item Width: 5.3 in
Format: Trade Paperback
