The Things They Carried: A Work of Fiction (Pulitzer Prize Finalist) [B0836]

1998 PB in nice clean condition. This ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling is a classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene. Through a series of intertwined stories, Tim O'Brien 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. BANNED in some school districts . . .

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "Phenomenal read. Paints such an incredibly raw and vivid picture of how grueling the war in Vietnam was from a soldier's perspective. There's certainly been novels in the past that have recounted what life was like as a soldier but Tim O'Brien does it in such a unique way, unlike any that I've experienced. The flipping back and forth from the war to the present day as he's writing the novel was so neat. Definitely worth the read!"; "The BEST book ever. Tim O'Briens writing is absolutely poetic, real and raw. I was there. Absolutely one of my most favorite books."; "Left on my To Be Read shelf for years. Big mistake."