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The Things They Carried / In the Lake of the Woods
by
Tim O'Brien
“Tim O’Brien is the best American writer of his generation.” —San Francisco Examiner
With more than two million copies in print, The Things They Carried is a classic work of American literature that has been changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene. It is a groundbreaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling...more
With more than two million copies in print, The Things They Carried is a classic work of American literature that has been changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene. It is a groundbreaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling...more
Hardcover, 528 pages
Published
November 1st 2011
by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Tim O’ Brien illuminated the emotional and physical burdens soldiers carried during the Vietnam War. His style of writing is both straightforward and eloquent. The soldiers were referred to as tangibles and intangibles. Unlike the tangibles items, the intangibles were something the soldiers would not, and could not, physically set down. The book itself contains interconnected stories about the soldiers. O’Brien was able to link the gaps between each character and formed a cohesive story. His wor...more
just finished this book for the 2nd time and it got even better. I would recommend this to anyone, even if they are not into Vietnam. its more then a war story.
I have read these stories, as well as some of his other tales, and they are magical in understanding... especially if you are an old grunt.
Nothing brings the reader the experience of Vietnam and how it shaped a generation like this book does.
having a hard time getting thru this one. It's ok so far. I am only about 1/2 way through it.
Loved this book. It moved me in ways I never expected. O'Brien's prose is intoxicating.
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Tim O'Brien matriculated at Macalester College. Graduation in 1968 found him with a BA in political science and a draft notice.
O'Brien was against the war but reported for service and was sent to Vietnam with what has been called the "unlucky" Americal division due to its involvement in the My Lai massacre in 1968, an event which figures prominently in In the Lake of the Woods. He was assigned to...more
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O'Brien was against the war but reported for service and was sent to Vietnam with what has been called the "unlucky" Americal division due to its involvement in the My Lai massacre in 1968, an event which figures prominently in In the Lake of the Woods. He was assigned to...more
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“By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. You make up others. You start sometimes with an incident that truly happened, and you carry it forward by inventing incidents that did not in fact occur but that nonetheless help to clarify and explain.”
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