{"product_id":"the-things-they-carried-9780006543947","title":"The Things They Carried","description":"The million-copy bestseller, which is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.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.\u003ch2\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/h2\u003eTim O’Brien was born in Minnesota and served as a foot soldier in Vietnam from 1969 to 1970, and after graduate studies at Harvard worked as a reporter for the Washington Post. When ‘If I Die in a Combat Zone’ was published in 1973, it established him as one of the leading American writers of his generation, a status that was confirmed when ‘Going After Cacciato’ won the National Book Award for fiction.","brand":"Tim O'Brien","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44273509269565,"sku":"9780006543947","price":21.24,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/x1000_c8e92846-f2a5-488c-9bf3-9a9cb48a0945.jpg?v=1793667147","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/the-things-they-carried-9780006543947","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}