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The Things They Carried

by Tim O'Brien

Hardcover, 233 pages, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, List Price: $24 |

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An anniversary edition of a collection of interconnected fictional stories follows the members of an American platoon fighting in the Vietnam War, in a book that mirrors the author's own wartime experiences.

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'Things They Carried' Back From Vietnam

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May 31, 2010 • Novelist Tim O'Brien served in Vietnam as an infantryman in 1968. He wrote about the war in several novels, including Going After Cacciato and If I Die in a Combat Zone. He spoke with Terry Gross in 1990 about his classic book of short war stories, The Things They Carried.

'Things They Carried' Back From Vietnam

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'The Things They Carried,' 20 Years On

March 24, 2010 • In war, there are no winners. That's what readers take away from Tim O'Brien's book about the Vietnam War, The Things They Carried, in the 20 years since its publication. O'Brien shares what he carries from his time in Vietnam.

'The Things They Carried,' 20 Years On

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