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The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien 2009 PB
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Modified Item
- No
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Age Level
- Adults
- Era
- 20th Century
- ISBN
- 9780618706419
- Book Title
- Things They Carried
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Format
- Trade Paperback, Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Psychological, Classics, War & Military, Short Stories (Single Author)
- Item Width
- 5.3in
- Item Weight
- 7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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Product Information
"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 Times 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 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0618706410
ISBN-13
9780618706419
eBay Product ID (ePID)
74261608
Product Key Features
Book Title
Things They Carried
Format
Trade Paperback, Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, Classics, War & Military, Short Stories (Single Author)
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.3in
Weight
7.1 Oz
Item Weight
7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Age Range
14-Up
Lc Classification Number
Ps3565.B75t48 2009
Publication Date
2009-10-13
Grade from
Ninth Grade
Reviews
"The best of these stories--and none is written with less than the sharp edge of honed vision--are memory and prophecy. These tell us not where we were but where we are, and perhaps where we will be. . . . It is an ultimate, indelible image of war in our time, and in time to come" -- Los Angeles Times "The Things They Carried is as good as any piece of literature can get . . . It is controlled and wild, deep and tough, perceptive and shrewd." --Chicago Sun Times "In prose that combines the sharp, unsentimental rhythms of Hemingway with gentler, more lyrical descriptions, Mr. O''Brien gives the reader a shockingly visceral sense of what it felt like to tramp through a booby-trapped jungle, carrying 20 pounds of supplies, 14 pounds of ammunition, along with radios, machine guns, assault rifles and grenades. . . . With ''The Things They Carried, Mr. 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 Times "[B]elongs high on the list of best fiction about any war....crystallizes the Vietnam experience for everyone [and] exposes the nature of all war stories."--New York Times, "Books of the Century" "With The Things They Carried, Tim O''Brien adds his second title to the short list of essential fiction about Vietnam. . . . [H]e captures the war''s pulsating rhythms and nerve-racking dangers. But he goes much further. By moving beyond the horror of the fighting to examine with sensitivity and insight the nature of courage and fear, by questioning the role that imagination plays in helping to form our memories and our own versions of truth, he places The Things They Carried high up on the list of best fiction about any war." --New York Times Book Review "When Going After Cacciato appeared out of nowhere to win the 1979 National Book Award, it seemed to many, myself included, that no finer fiction had, as of then, been written in the closing half of the 20th century--or was likely to be in the remaining years to come. The Things They Carried disposes of that prediction. . . . Tim O''Brien is the best American writer of his generation." -- San Francisco Examiner "The integrity of a novel and the immediacy of an autobiography . . . O'Brien's absorbing narrative moves in circles; events are recalled and retold again and again, giving us a deep sense of the fluidity of truth and the dance of memory." --The New Yorker "Rendered with an evocative, quiet precision, not equaled in the imaginitive literature of the American war in Vietnam. It is as though a Thucydides had descended from grand politique and strategy to calm dissection of the quotidian efforts of war. . . . O''Brien has it just right." --Washington Post "Powerful . . . Composed in the same lean, vigorous style as his earlier books, The Things They Carried adds up to a captivating account of the experiences of an infantry company in Vietnam. . . . Evocative and haunting, the raw force of confession."--Wall Street Journal "O''Brien has written a book so searing and immediate you can almost hear the choppers in the background. Drenched in irony and purple-haze napalm, the Vietnam narrative has almost been forced to produce a new kind of war literature. The Things They Carried is an extraordinary contribution to that class of fiction. . . . O''Brien''s passion and memory may have been his torment all these years, but they have also been his gift. . . . The Things They Carried leaves third-degree burns. Between its rhythmic brilliance and its exquisite rendering of memory--the slant of sunlight in the midst of war, the look on a man''s face as he steps on a mine--this is prose headed for the nerve center of what was Vietnam."--The Boston Globe "Simply marvelous ... A striking sequence of stories that twist and turn and bounce off each other . . .
Copyright Date
1989
Lccn
2009-029928
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
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It was a good read as I grew up in the same area around NW Iowa and was in the same area of operations in Viet Nam
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