The Things They Carried

A classic, life-changing meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling, with more than two-million copies in print

Depicting the men of Alpha Company--Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O'Brien, who survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three--the stories in The Things They Carried opened our eyes to the nature of war in a way we will never forget. It is taught everywhere, from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writing, and in the decades since its publication it has never failed to challenge our perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, and courage, longing, and fear.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 03/22/2010
ISBN: 9780547391175
Pages: 233
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.44h x 6.08w x 0.86d
Award: Delaware Diamonds Award - Nominee

Review Citations: Entertainment Weekly 03/26/2010 pg. 75
Christianity Today 09/01/2014 pg. 76

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 57010 / Things They Carried
Reading Level: 5.8 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 10