A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene,ย The Things They Carriedย is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling.ย ย The Things They Carriedย depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross,
Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim OโBrien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three.
Taught everywhereยfrom high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writingยit 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.
