The things they carried: a work of fiction
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ISBN:
9780547391175
9780767902892
9780618706419
9780547420295
9780767902892
9780618706419
9780547420295
Accelerated Reader:
UG
Level 5.8, 10 Points
Level 5.8, 10 Points
Lexile measure:
880L
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| Grouping Title | things they carried a work of fiction |
| Grouping Author | tim obrien |
| Grouping Category | book |
| Grouping Language | English (eng) |
| Last Grouping Update | 2025-05-09 15:08:17PM |
| Last Indexed | 2025-05-09 15:09:23PM |
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O'Brien, Tim, 1946-
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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 everywhere--from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writing--it 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. The Things They Carried won France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize; it was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Heroic young men carry the emotional weight of their lives to war in Vietnam in a patchwork account of a modern journey into the heart of darkness.
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OBRIEN
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Wake County Public Libraries
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9780547391175
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2009
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HarperCollins
Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Read-On|
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Psychological fiction
Soldiers -- Fiction
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Veterans -- Fiction
War fiction
Soldiers -- Fiction
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Veterans -- Fiction
War fiction
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The things they carried : a work of fiction
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The Things They Carried
The things they carried : a work of fiction / by Tim O'Brien
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The things they carried
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a work of fiction
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Classic Literature
Fiction
Historical Fiction
Literature
Short Stories
Soldiers
Veterans
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
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Historical Fiction
Literature
Short Stories
Soldiers
Veterans
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
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