The Things They Carried

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The powerful and enduring work of fiction about men and war —more than one million copies in print.
They carried malaria tablets, love letters, z8-pound mine detectors, dope, illustrated Bibles, each other. And if they made it home alive, they carried unrelenting images of a nightmarish war that history is only beginning to absorb. Since its first publication. The Things They Carried has become an unparalleled Vietnam testament, a classic work of American literature, and a profound study of men at war that illuminates the capacity, and the limits, of the human heart and soul.
"The best of these stories-and none is written with less than the sharp edge of honed vision—are memory and prophecy. These tell us not where we were but where we are, and perhaps where we will be." —Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times
"The Things They Carried is as good as any piece of literature can get It is controlled and wild, deep and tough, perceptive and shrewd." —Chicago Sun-Times
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FICTION
The powerful and enduring work of fiction about men and war —more than one million copies in print.
They carried malaria tablets, love letters, z8-pound mine detectors, dope, illustrated Bibles, each other. And if they made it home alive, they carried unrelenting images of a nightmarish war that history is only beginning to absorb. Since its first publication. The Things They Carried has become an unparalleled Vietnam testament, a classic work of American literature, and a profound study of men at war that illuminates the capacity, and the limits, of the human heart and soul.
"The best of these stories-and none is written with less than the sharp edge of honed vision—are memory and prophecy. These tell us not where we were but where we are, and perhaps where we will be." —Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times
"The Things They Carried is as good as any piece of literature can get It is controlled and wild, deep and tough, perceptive and shrewd." —Chicago Sun-Times
im] i)'Brien's passion and memdty may have been his torment all these years, but they have also been his gift . . . This is prose headed for the nerve center of what was Vietnam." —Boston Globe
"You've got to read this book In a world filled too often with numbness, or shifting values, these stories shine in a strange and opposite direction, moving against the flow, illuminating life's wonder." -Dallas Morning News
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. Vissza