The Things They Carried
eBook - ePub

The Things They Carried

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Things They Carried

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Contents
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Epigraph
  7. The Things They Carried
  8. Love
  9. Spin
  10. On the Rainy River
  11. Enemies
  12. Friends
  13. How to Tell a True War Story
  14. The Dentist
  15. Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong
  16. Stockings
  17. Church
  18. The Man I Killed
  19. Ambush
  20. Style
  21. Speaking of Courage
  22. Notes
  23. In the Field
  24. Good Form
  25. Field Trip
  26. The Ghost Soldiers
  27. Night Life
  28. The Lives of the Dead
  29. Discussion Questions
  30. About the Author
  31. Connect on Social Media