Things They Carried Spanning six decades

Spanning six decades

and Lizbet's own romantic uncertainty

a rich merchant's son whose obsession with the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna eventually draws all three of them into a tragic denouement

and how might we recognize it

Things They Carried Spanning six decades"O'Brien has written a vital, important book a book that matters not only to the reader interested in Vietnam, but to anyone interested in the craft of writing as well." Michiko Kakutani, New York Times 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.