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<P>A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, <I>The Things They Carried</I> is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. <BR> <BR><I>The Things They Carried</I> 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. <BR> <BR>Taught everywhere - from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writing - it has become required reading for any American and continues to challenge readers in their perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, courage and fear and longing. </P><P><I>The Things They Carried</I> won France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize; it was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. </P><P>