{"product_id":"the-things-they-carried-paperback","title":"The Things They Carried - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTim O'Brien\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"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.\"\u003cem\u003e--\u003c\/em\u003eMichiko Kakutani, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, \u003cem\u003eThe Things They Carried\u003c\/em\u003e is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Things They Carried\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cem\u003eThe Things They Carried\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe best American writer of his generation. -- \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Examiner\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Century \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA Pulitzer Prize Finalist \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA National Book Critics' Circle Award Finalist \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWinner of the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger (France) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWinner of the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow with over two million copies in print, \u003ci\u003eThe Things They Carried \u003c\/i\u003eis a classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene. It\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eis a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"The Things They Carried\u003c\/i\u003e is as good as any piece of literature can get.\" -- \u003ci\u003eChicago Sun-Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This is writing so powerful that it steals your breath. ... \u003ci\u003eThe Things They Carried\u003c\/i\u003e is about more than war, of course. It is about the human heart and emotional baggage and loyalty and love. It is about the difference between 'truth' and 'reality.' It is about death--and life.\"--\u003ci\u003eMilwaukee Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Rendered with an evocative, quiet precision, not equaled in the imaginative literature of the American war in Vietnam.\" --\u003ci\u003eWashington Post \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"You ve got to read this book In a world filled too often with numbness, or shifting values, these stories shine in a strange and opposite direction, moving against the flow, illuminating life's wonder, life's tenuousness, life's importance.\" -- \u003ci\u003eDallas Morning News\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A book so searing and immediate you can almost hear the choppers in the background. . . This is prose headed for the nerve center of what was Vietnam.\" -- \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[An] ultimate, indelible image of war in our time, and in time to come.\" -- \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTim O Brien received the 1979 National Book Award for \u003ci\u003eGoing After Cacciato\u003c\/i\u003e. Among his other books are \u003ci\u003eIn the Lake of the Woods\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTomcat in Love\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIf I Die in a Combat Zone\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eJuly, July\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTim O'Brien received the 1979 National Book Award for \u003ci\u003eGoing After Cacciato\u003c\/i\u003e. 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