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A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. 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. Taught everywherefrom high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writingit 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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Publisher : Mariner Books Classics (October 13, 2009)
Language : English
Paperback : 233 pages
ISBN-10 : 0618706410
ISBN-13 : 978-0618706419
Reading age : 14 years and up
Lexile measure : 880L
Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
Dimensions : 5.31 x 0.62 x 8 inches
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Customers find the book real and accurate, describing it as a conversation at a class reunion. They also praise the writing style as well-written and beautifully executed. Readers describe the emotional content as raw, intimate, and devastating. They describe the writing quality as amazing, masterful, and beautiful. Customers also mention that the content is powerful, expressing conflict, fear, contradiction, pain, anger, and confusion. Opinions differ on readability, with some finding it easy to understand and draw the reader in, while others say it’s difficult to read at times and doesn’t teach anything about a real war experience.
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