Author
Tim O'Brien
We've read and reviewed Tim O'Brien's literary fiction and war book The Things They Carried on Book of the Day — scored and written up in full, with a clear verdict on who it's for.
The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien
Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried is a collection of linked stories about the men of Alpha Company in Vietnam, but it's really about memory, guilt, and what fiction does that fact can't. It's literary war writing that keeps doubling back to question its own account, and the cumulative effect is closer to grief than to combat.