| Edition |
[20th anniversary ed.]. |
| Description |
233 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Edition statement from dust jacket. |
| Contents |
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. |
| 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. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.8 10.0 57010. |
| Subject |
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Veterans -- Fiction.
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Psychological fiction.
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| ISBN |
9780547391175 |
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054739117X |
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