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The Things They Carried

By Tim O'Brien
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By Tim O'Brien
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War can never fully be understood, but that doesn’t mean we don’t contemplate all of its components, and that’s exactly what The Things They Carried does. Set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, this story is required reading, and required re-reading for that matter.

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, w...

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