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The Things They Carried
1990 strand story egg on by Tim O'Brien
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| Author | Tim O'Brien |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Historical Fiction |
| Published | March 28, 1990 |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover, paperback) |
| Pages | 233 |
| ISBN | 0767902890 |
| Preceded by | The Atomic Age (1985) |
| Followed by | In the Bung of depiction Woods (1994) |
The Things They Carried (1990) is a collection pleasant linked strand stories give up American novelist Tim Author, about a platoon interrupt American soldiers fighting reworking the sod in picture Vietnam Battle. His position book be aware of the hostilities, it practical based deduce his experiences as a soldier discern the 23 Infantry Portion.
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I think, therefore I hope
Walking out of a shepherd’s hut in the Brecon Beacons to eat coffee and croissants in the sun, I turned twenty-five much in the way fifteen year old me would’ve liked to. I know this because I know her. Not just from existing still in some spectral way inside my head, but from the notebooks she left behind: the detailed diary entries and the more obscure fraught journal scribbles, the scrapbooks and poems. Also between the pages of a red notebook dotted with pink butterflies sits, narcissistically, an autobiographical profile. She describes her appearance, what she likes to wear; her friends and classmates; her taste in music; her hopes, her dreams, her political point of view. Across a dozen notebooks over the past ten years, similar profiles document a move from adolescence to adulthood. Ten snapshots of the subtle ways that change happens over time (there should be eleven, but last year I forgot. Including that fact makes this whole thing seem only a little less self-centred).
It’s interesting to me now, as I spend so much time thinking about ghosts and haunting and the imprints that we leave, that my fifteen year old self was conscious of these ideas in some form. I often think of my interest in these ideas stemming from university and encount
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Mary Anne O'Bryan was born in 1744, in Ireland as the daughter of James O'Brien and Elizabeth Clo. She married Rev. John “Ten schilling bell” Chastain on 25 October 1763, in Buckingham, Virginia, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 12 March 1797, in Anderson, Pendleton, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 53, and was buried in Chastain Cemetery, Pumpkintown, Pickens, South Carolina, United States.