The Things They Carried
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The Things They Carried
Tim O'Brien
Literature
James Mustich
Jul 30, 2018
Before publishing The Things They Carried, twenty-two interwoven stories that tell of the lives of Alpha Company’s members in and after Vietnam, Tim O’Brien had written a memoir of his service in Southeast Asia, If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Send Me Home (1973), as well as an award-winning novel informed by the same experience, Going After Cacciato (1978), widely considered one of the most compelling fictional accounts of the war. The Things They Carried straddles the approaches of the earlier volumes, and in so doing amplifies their power. O’Brien’s narratives are both searing and fleeting, faithful to the urgency with which all of us, not only soldiers, struggle to hold on to whatever we carry in the only way we really can, trying to save our lives with stories.
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Olivia Diamond
Dec 6, 2018
Absolutely essential reading to understand what those young men of my generation experienced when they were drafted into a war in Southeast Asia that none of us really understood.
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Olivia Holmes
May 25, 2019
Exciting and sad.
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Debra Hanff
May 23, 2020
An incredible book and the audio version with Bryan Cranston is outstanding.
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