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Description
In 1979, Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato--a novel about the Vietnam War--won the National Book Award. In this, his second work of fiction about Vietnam, O'Brien's unique artistic vision is again clearly demonstrated. Neither a novel nor a short story collection, it is an arc of fictional... read more
First Sentence
First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey.
Table of Contents
1. The Things They Carried
2. Love
3. Spin
4. On The Rainy River
5. Enemies
6. Friends
7. How To Tell a True War Story
8. The Dentist
9. Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong
10. Stockings
11. Church
12. The Man I Killed
13. Ambush
14. Style
15. Speaking of Courage
16. Notes
17. In the Field
18. Good Form
19. Field Trip
20. The Ghost Soldiers
21. Night Life
22. The Lives of the Dead
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