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The Things They Carried (Flamingo)
Tim O´brien
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Description for The Things They Carried (Flamingo)
Paperback. The million-copy bestseller, which is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FJMV; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 200 x 17. Weight in Grams: 172.
The million-copy bestseller, which is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. `The Things They Carried' is, on its surface, a sequence of award-winning stories about the madness of the Vietnam War; at the same time it has the cumulative power and unity of a novel, with recurring characters and interwoven strands of plot and theme. But while Vietnam is central to `The Things ... Read more
The million-copy bestseller, which is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. `The Things They Carried' is, on its surface, a sequence of award-winning stories about the madness of the Vietnam War; at the same time it has the cumulative power and unity of a novel, with recurring characters and interwoven strands of plot and theme. But while Vietnam is central to `The Things ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Flamingo
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780006543947
SKU
9780006543947
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Ref
99-1
About Tim O´brien
Tim O'Brien was born in Minnesota and served as a foot soldier in Vietnam from 1969 to 1970, and after graduate studies at Harvard worked as a reporter for the Washington Post. When `If I Die in a Combat Zone' was published in 1973, it established him as one of the leading American writers of his generation, a status that ... Read more
Reviews for The Things They Carried (Flamingo)
`One of the best war books of this century, an unflinching attempt to illuminate both its obscene physical brutality and the terrible mental overload' Guardian `A thrilling and beautiful distillation of everything that has been thought, felt, or said about the Vietnam War and its ... Read more