The Things They Carried
About this book
*The Things They Carried* (1990) is a collection of linked short stories by American novelist Tim O'Brien, about a platoon of American soldiers fighting on the ground in the Vietnam War. His third book about the war, it is based upon his experiences as a soldier in the 23rd Infantry Division.
Subjects
- american short stories
- american war stories
- amitié masculine
- anciens combattants
- fiction
- fictional works
- fiction, family life
- fiction, psychological
- fiction, short stories (single author)
- guerre du viêt-nam, 1961-1975
- loneliness
- male friendship
- married people
- married people, fiction
- military personnel
- minnesota, fiction
- missing persons
- missing persons, fiction
- nouvelles américaines
- politicians
- politicians, fiction
- reading level-grade 10
- reading level-grade 11
- reading level-grade 12
- reading level-grade 9
- récits de guerre américains
- romans, nouvelles
- short stories
- soldiers
- solitude
- veterans
- veterans, fiction
- vietnam conflict
- vietnam war, 1961-1975
- vietnam war, 1961-1975, fiction
- war
- warfare