| The Things They Carried Anniversary Edition Contributor(s): O'Brien, Tim (Author) |
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ISBN: 054739117X ISBN-13: 9780547391175 Publisher: Mariner Books Classics OUR PRICE: $27.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: March 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | War & Military - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2010292325 |
| Lexile Measure: 880 |
| Physical Information: 0.86" H x 6.08" W x 8.44" (0.79 lbs) 256 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 57010 Reading Level: 5.8 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 10.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A classic, life-changing meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling, with more than two-million copies in print Depicting the men of Alpha Company--Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O'Brien, who survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three--the stories in The Things They Carried opened our eyes to the nature of war in a way we will never forget. It is taught everywhere, from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writing, and in the decades since its publication it has never failed to challenge our perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, and courage, longing, and fear. |
Contributor Bio(s): O'Brien, Tim: - TIM O'BRIEN received the 1979 National Book Award for Going After Cacciato. Among his other books are The Things They Carried, Pulitzer Finalist and a New York Times Book of the Century, and In the Lake of the Woods, winner of the James Fenimore Cooper Prize. He was awarded the Pritzker Literature Award for lifetime achievement in military writing in 2013. |