Tim O'Brien
The Things They Carried
A collection of linked semi-autobiographical short stories about a platoon of American soldiers in the Vietnam War by Tim O'Brien
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jmd“Semi-autobiographical Vietnam War stories, absolute classic”
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Lis“They carried shameful memories. They carried the common secret of cowardice... Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to”
Elizabeth Walker“I wrote my senior thesis on Vietnam War novels and now have seen him read a number of times. Still hits after all these years.”
