num_pages: 246
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Things They Carried
titlecomplete: The Things They Carried
genres: Classics, Historical, Short Stories, War, Read For School, School, Historical Fiction, Literature, Fiction, Military Fiction
ratings_count: 302764
awards: awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger
category: Roman, awardedAt: 631180800000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Broadway