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The Things They Carried

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1990
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Linked stories about American soldiers in Vietnam, drawn from Tim O'Brien's own service as a soldier. The title story opens with First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross, who keeps letters from a girl named Martha at the bottom of his rucksack and hopes she will return his love.

It then lists what the men carry, from canned peaches to dental floss.

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Tim O'Brien

O'Brien was drafted in 1968 and served in Quang Ngai province with the same division responsible for what happened at My Lai a year before he arrived, in the same villages.

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Book facts

First published
1990
Reading time
About 5 hours
Pages
191
Language
English
Formats
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