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The things they carried : a work of fiction

O'Brien, Tim 1946- (Author).

Summary: "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. 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.

Record details

ISBN: 054739117X
ISBN: 9780547391175
Physical Description: 233 p. ; 22 cm.
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Edition: [20th anniversary ed.].
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2010], c1990.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Edition statement from dust jacket.
Formatted Contents Note:	Things they carried -- Love -- Spin -- On the rainy river -- Enemies -- Friends -- How to tell a true war story -- Dentist -- Sweetheart on the song Tra Bong -- Stockings -- Church -- Man I killed -- Ambush -- Style -- Speaking of courage -- Notes -- In the field -- Good form -- Field trip -- Ghost soldiers -- Night life -- Lives of the dead.