TY - BOOK AU - O'Brien,Tim TI - The Things They Carried: A Work of Fiction SN - 9780618706419 AV - PS3565.B75 T48 2009 U1 - 813/.54 22 PY - 2009///, c1990 CY - Boston PB - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt KW - Vietnam War, 1961-1975 KW - Veterans KW - Fiction KW - War stories, American N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1108/2009029928-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1202/2009029928-d.html ER -