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| Title | : | The Things They Carried |
| Author | : | Tim O'Brien |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 246 pages |
| Published | : | December 29th 1998 by Broadway Books (first published March 28th 1990) |
| Categories | : | Romance. Contemporary Romance. Contemporary. Womens Fiction. Chick Lit. Adult. Fiction. Audiobook |
Tim O'Brien
Paperback | Pages: 246 pages Rating: 4.13 | 239606 Users | 13560 Reviews
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In 1979, Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato—a novel about the Vietnam War—won the National Book Award. In this, his second work of fiction about Vietnam, O'Brien's unique artistic vision is again clearly demonstrated. Neither a novel nor a short story collection, it is an arc of fictional episodes, taking place in the childhoods of its characters, in the jungles of Vietnam and back home in America two decades later.
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| Original Title: | The Things They Carried |
| ISBN: | 0767902890 (ISBN13: 9780767902892) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Fiction (1991), Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Fiction (1990), Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger for Roman (1990), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (1990) |
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Ratings: 4.13 From 239606 Users | 13560 ReviewsEvaluation Out Of Books The Things They Carried
The truth shall set you free.What about half truths? Or a fictionalized version of the truth?Tim OBrien, as a Vietnam vet and writer, makes no bones about the veracity of a war story: I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth. This book is an exercise in not only exorcising demons and coping with guilt and grief, but in how to write a narrative that weaves in and out of what could pass for truth or fiction, like a greased snakeA true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done. If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie. There is no rectitude whatsoever. There is no virtue.This is a great
This was the second time I read this extraordinary collection, and it moved me even more now. Poignant and powerful and so damn smart. Yes, it is about Vietnam, but it is also about stories -- and, quite literally, the way stories can save us. I loved every single word. Every. Single. Word.
What makes a good war story? How much needs to be true for it to feel real? Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried" is a powerful, heartbreaking and gut-wrenching book about the Vietnam war. I had previously read the title story, which is excellent on its own, but I can thank the Ken Burns & Lynn Novick documentary for pushing me to read the entire book. O'Brien was interviewed in their TV series, and his wartime experiences fueled his writing. "The Things They Carried" isn't really a novel
The Things They Carried reads like a confession, which, I suppose, in many ways it is. War is a theme in so many books, be they historical fiction, memoirs, alternate histories... and I've certainly read my fair share of them. But stretching my mind back over the years right now, I struggle to recall one that has affected me quite so much. Perhaps I would put it on equal footing with Drakulic's "S" - a heartbreakng novel about the treatment of women in the female war camps during the Bosnian
I took a short story writing class for kicks a while back. On the first day, the professor recommended two books: Mystery and Manners by Flannery OConnor and this book by Tim OBrien. I promptly bought both. Then I just as promptly set them aside to read something flashy. I am glad I waited until after the class to read this one. Otherwise, I would have quit the class immediately and never written so much as a grocery list ever again. This book is genius. The story about the girl with a necklace
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