The Things They Carried
$19.59
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
3 October 1991
Summary
The million-copy bestseller, which is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling.
‘The Things They Carried’ is, on its surface, a sequence of award-winning stories about the madness of the Vietnam War; at the same time it has the cumulative power and unity of a novel, with recurring characters and interwoven strands of plot and theme.
But while Vietnam is central to ‘The Things They Carried’, it is not simply a book about…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780006543947 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0006543944 |
| Author: | Tim O’Brien |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Imprint: | Fourth Estate Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 3 October 1991 |
| Weight: | 180g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 16mm |
| Series: | Flamingo S. |
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Critics Review
‘One of the best war books of this century, an unflinching attempt to illuminate both its obscene physical brutality and the terrible mental overload’ Guardian
‘A thrilling and beautiful distillation of everything that has been thought, felt, or said about the Vietnam War and its long afterburn. A heartbreaking and healing masterpiece; time will make it a classic’ Michael Herr, author of Dispatches
‘Essential…O’Brien captures the war’s pulsating rhythms and nerve-racking dangers…a stunning performance. The overall effect of these original tales is devastating’ New York Times
About The Author
Tim O’Brien
Tim O’Brien was born in Minnesota and served as a foot soldier in Vietnam from 1969 to 1970. After graduate studies at Harvard, he worked as a reporter for the Washington Post. When ‘If I Die in a Combat Zone’ was published in 1973, it established him as one of the leading American writers of his generation, a status that was confirmed when ‘Going After Cacciato’ won the National Book Award for fiction.
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