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The Things They Carried : A Work of Fiction / by Tim O'Brien.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009, c1990.Edition: 1st Mariner Books edDescription: 233 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780618706419
  • 0618706410
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813/.54 22
LOC classification:
  • PS3565.B75 T48 2009
Online resources:
Contents:
The things they carried -- Love -- Spin -- On the rainy river -- Enemies -- Friends -- How to tell a true war story -- The dentist -- Sweetheart of the song tra bong -- Stockings -- Church -- The man I killed -- Ambush -- Style -- Speaking of courage -- Notes -- In the field -- Good form -- Field trip -- The ghost soldiers -- Night life -- The lives of the dead.
Summary: Heroic young men carry the emotional weight of their lives to war in Vietnam in a patchwork account of a modern journey into the heart of darkness.
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The things they carried -- Love -- Spin -- On the rainy river -- Enemies -- Friends -- How to tell a true war story -- The dentist -- Sweetheart of the song tra bong -- Stockings -- Church -- The man I killed -- Ambush -- Style -- Speaking of courage -- Notes -- In the field -- Good form -- Field trip -- The ghost soldiers -- Night life -- The lives of the dead.

Heroic young men carry the emotional weight of their lives to war in Vietnam in a patchwork account of a modern journey into the heart of darkness.

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