The Things They Carried
Tim O'Brien. Penguin Books, $12.95 (251pp) ISBN 978-0-14-014773-5
Weapons and good-luck charms carried by U.S. soldiers in Vietnam here represent survival, lost innocence and the war's interminable legacy. ``O'Brien's meditations--on war and memory, on darkness and light--suffuse the entire work with a kind of poetic form, making for a highly original, fully realized novel,'' said PW. 60,000 first printing. (Apr.)
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Reviewed on: 04/01/1991
Genre: Fiction
Compact Disc - 978-1-4025-7369-9
Hardcover - 273 pages - 978-0-395-51598-3
Hardcover - 149 pages - 978-0-7910-8171-6
Paperback - 256 pages - 978-0-618-70641-9
