The Things They Carried
HarperCollins
The million copy bestseller which is a ground breaking meditation on war memory imagination and the redemptive power of storytelling The Things They Carried is on its surface a sequence of award winning stories about the madness of the Vietnam War at the same time it has the cumulative power and unity of a novel with recurring characters and interwoven strands of plot and theme But while Vietnam is central to The Things They Carried it is not simply a book about war It is also a book about the human heart about the terrible weight of those things we carry through our lives
