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A classic, life-changing meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling, with more than two-million copies in print Depicting the men of Alpha Company--Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O'Brien, who survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three--the stories in The Things They Carried opened our eyes to the nature of war in a way we will never forget. It is taught everywhere, from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writing, and in the decades since its publication it has never failed to challenge our perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, and courage, longing, and fear.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Heartwarming. -- New York Times Whether or not you're a book lover, you'll be moved. -- Entertainment Weekly A readable, accessible addition to World War II literature and] a book that will be enjoyed by lovers of books about books. -- Boston Globe Four stars out of four] .
A book about young men transformed by war, written by a veteran whose dazzling literary gifts gripped my attention from the first page to the last. -- The Wall Street Journal Friedman's sober and striking new memoir . . . is] on a par with Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried -- its Israeli analog.
O'Brien's first novel in two decades was well worth the wait. . . . In the age of 'mythomania, ' O'Brien takes aim at the lies that power this country, and how and why they sustain us. America Fantastica peers straight into the dark heart of the American psyche, and it's unafraid of the comedy and t
An American Master returns: The author of The Things They Carried delivers his first new novel in two decades, a brilliant and rollicking odyssey, in which a bank robbery by a disgraced journalist sparks a cross-country chase through a nation corroded by shameless delusion and deceit. At 11:34 a.m.
