Horizon Information Portal

e-branch

Home

My Account/Renew Loans

Find Magazine Articles & more

The things they carried / a work of fiction by Tim O'Brien.

by O'Brien, Tim, 1946-

View full image

Broadway Books, 1998.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Veterans -- United States -- Fiction.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Fiction.

9780767902892 (trade pbk.)

1st Broadway Books trade pbk. ed.

246 p. ; 21 cm.

Originally published 1990.

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.

"They carried malaria tablets, love letters, 28-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 was that illuminates the capacity, and the limits, or the human heart and soul."--Publisher.

Psychological fiction.

Autobiographical fiction.

Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.

Horizon Information Portal