The Things They Carried
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On Sale:
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4/10/1991
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Formats:
Paperback
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A sequence of stories about the Vietnam War, this book also has the unity of a novel, with recurring characters and interwoven strands of plot and theme. It aims to summarise America′s involvement in Vietnam, and her coming to terms with that experience in the years that followed.
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