The Things They Carried

A classic, life-changing meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling, with more than two-million copies in print

Depicting the men of Alpha Company--Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O'Brien, who survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three--the stories in The Things They Carried opened our eyes to the nature of war in a way we will never forget. It is taught everywhere, from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writing, and in the decades since its publication it has never failed to challenge our perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, and courage, longing, and fear.

Author: Tim O'Brien
Publisher: Mariner Books Classics
Published: 03/22/2010
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.44h x 6.08w x 0.86d
ISBN: 9780547391175
Audience: Young Adult

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.8
Point Value: 10
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 57010 / Things They Carried


Award: Delaware Diamonds Award - Nominee


Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 03/26/2010 pg. 75
Christianity Today 09/01/2014 pg. 76

About the Author
Tim O'Brien received the 1979 National Book Award in fiction for Going After Cacciato. Among his other books are the acclaimed novels In the Lake of the Woods, Tomcat in Love, If I Die in a Combat Zone, and July, July. In the Lake of the Woods received the James Fenimore Cooper Prize from the Society of American Historians and was named Time magazine's best novel of the year.