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The Things They Carried
A Work of Fiction
by Tim O'Brien
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A collection of short story-like episodes about the lives of a group of footsoldiers in Vietnam: their present existence in the alien jungle, their childhoods, and their futures in America after the war is long over.
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9780833574862,
Prebinding,
Bt Bound,
1999
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9780140147735,
Paperback,
Penguin Group USA,
1991
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9781559943611,
Audio Cassette,
Harperaudio,
1991
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9780547391175,
Hardcover,
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
2010
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9780395515983,
Hardcover,
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
1990
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9780618706419,
Paperback,
Mariner Books,
2009
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9781586638276,
Paperback,
Sterling Pub Co Inc,
2002
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Media Reviews
"'The Things They Carried'...is one of the finest books, fact or fiction, written about the Vietnam War."
First Line
First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey.
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