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The things they carried / by Tim O'Brien.
Van Pelt Library PS3565.B75 T48 1998
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Brien, Tim, 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Veterans--United States--Fiction.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Fiction.
- Veterans.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 273 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Broadway Books trade paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Broadway Books, 1998.
- Summary:
- Weapons and good-luck charms carried by U.S. soldiers in Vietnam here represent survival, lost innocence and the war's interminable legacy.
- Contents:
- The things they carried
- Love
- Spin
- On the rainy river
- Enemies
- Friends
- How to tell a true war story
- The dentist
- Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong
- Stockings
- Church
- The man I killed
- Ambush
- Style
- Speaking of courage
- Notes
- In the field
- Good form
- Field trip
- The ghost soldiers
- Night life
- The lives of the dead.
- ISBN:
- 0767902890
- 9780767902892
- OCLC:
- 433934725
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