The Things They Carried
Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1990. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket ($19.95). 273, [1] pp. 8.5" x 5.75" Fine in near fine dust jacket, in mylar cover. Item #220670
SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY
War always carries with it an ambiguous reality. What really happened over there? Does our memory of such things betray or bolster that reality? In The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien’s third work about war, that reality between truth and fiction if further blurred. The linked short stories give a glimpse into the gruesome and difficult realities of war, drawing on his own experiences as a soldier there with the 23rd Infantry Division. These stories are true in a way that bleeds deeper than fact.
Association Copy. This first edition is inscribed by O’Brien to friend and fellow author David Milofsky with reminiscence of the Bread Loaf writer’s conference.
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