The Things They Carried

Overview

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 work of Vietnam War fiction and a meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling.    In this landmark collection of stories, 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.

Details

Publisher

HarperCollins

Published

2009-10-13

Pages

256

Language

EN

Categories

Fiction / Classics, Fiction / Short Stories (single author), Fiction / War & Military, Fiction / Literary, Fiction / Historical / 20th Century / World War II & Holocaust, Fiction / Psychological, Fiction / Coming of Age, Fiction / World Literature / American / 20th Century, Fiction / Biographical & Autofiction

ISBN-13

9780547420295