{"product_id":"9780006543947","title":"The Things They Carried","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: O’Brien, Tim\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eVietnam War fiction\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 25 July 1991 by HarperCollins Publishers (Fourth Estate Ltd) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 272 pages\u003cbr\u003e197 x 129 x 16 | 188g\u003cp\u003eThe million-copy bestseller, which is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘The Things They Carried’ is, on its surface, a sequence of award-winning stories about the madness of the Vietnam War; at the same time it has the cumulative power and unity of a novel, with recurring characters and interwoven strands of plot and theme.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e But while Vietnam is central to ‘The Things They Carried’, it is not simply a book about war. It is also a book about the human heart – about the terrible weight of those things we carry through our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"O’Brien, Tim","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50666391929016,"sku":"9780006543947","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9780006543947.jpg?v=1734743101","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9780006543947","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}