Things They Carried

English

ISBN: 0618706410

EAN: 9780618706419

Category: Fiction / Psychological/Fiction / Short Stories (Single Author)/Fiction / War & Military

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

Release Date: 12/31/2009

Age Range: 14-null

Synopsis: 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 OBrien, 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 Frances 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.

Things They Carried

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.64 inches

Width: 5.31 inches

Length: 8.0 inches

Weight: 7.37 oz

Pages: 256