(Ebook) The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien ISBN 9780008329693, 0008329699

(Ebook) The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien ISBN 9780008329693, 0008329699

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. "Only a handful of novels and short stories have managed to clarify, in any lasting way, the meaning of the war in Vietnam for America and for the soldiers who served there... [Tim O'Brien] captures the war's pulsating rhythms and nerve-racking dangers. But he goes much further. By moving beyond the horror of the fighting to examine with sensitivity and insight the nature of courage and fear, by questioning the role that imagination plays in helping to form our memories and our own versions of truth, he places ''The Things They Carried'' high up on the list of best fiction about any war."  -  Robert R. Harris, The New York TimesTim O’Brien, drafted into the Army in 1968, deployed to Vietnam from 1969 to 70, returning with a Purple Heart. Since then, he has continuously published both fiction and nonfiction wrapped around his wartime experiences. Upon his return, he become a newspaper reporter but this gave way to his fiction writing after publication of his memoir If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Send Me Home.