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Book, 2010
Current format, Book, 2010, 20th anniversary ed., Available now.
Book, 2010
Current format, Book, 2010, 20th anniversary ed., Available now. Offered in 0 more formats
"The Things They Carried" depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O'Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. It has become required reading for any American and continues to challenge readers in their perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, courage and fear and longing.
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