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; Signed by Tim O’Brien in the year of publication
The Things They Carried.
O'BRIEN, Tim.
Item Number: 136459
Boston: Houghton Mifflin/ Seymour Lawrence, 1990.
First edition of the author’s fifth book. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by the author in the year of publication on the title page, “Tim O’Brien March 21, 1990.” Near fine in a 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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