A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The things they carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling.
The things they carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three.