English language
Published Oct. 5, 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers.
Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien
Things They Carried (2009, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers)
- ISBN:
- 9781299886414
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The Things They Carried (1990) is a collection of linked short stories by American novelist Tim O'Brien, about a platoon of American soldiers fighting on the ground in the Vietnam War. His third book about the war, it is based upon his experiences as a soldier in the 23rd Infantry Division.
Subjects
- Fiction, short stories (single author)
- Veterans, fiction
- Fiction, psychological
- Vietnam war, 1961-1975, fiction