The Things They Carried.

"They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity": First Edition of The Things They Carried; Inscribed by Tim O’Brien

The Things They Carried.

O'BRIEN, Tim.

Item Number: 143081

Boston: Houghton Mifflin/ Seymour Lawrence, 1990.

First edition of the author’s classic fifth book. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Linda, Peace. Tim O’Brien.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket.

A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling "The Things They Carried is as good as any piece of literature can get . . . It is controlled and wild, deep and tough, perceptive and shrewd" (Chicago Sun Times).

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