{"product_id":"the-things-they-carried-9780547391175","title":"The Things They Carried","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA classic, life-changing meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling, with more than two-million copies in print \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDepicting the men of Alpha Company--Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O'Brien, who survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three--the stories in \u003ci\u003eThe Things They Carried\u003c\/i\u003e opened our eyes to the nature of war in a way we will never forget. It is taught everywhere, from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writing, and in the decades since its publication it has never failed to challenge our perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, and courage, longing, and fear.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTim O'Brien received the 1979 National Book Award in fiction for \u003ci\u003eGoing After Cacciato\u003c\/i\u003e. Among his other books are the acclaimed novels \u003ci\u003eIn the Lake of the Woods\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTomcat in Love\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIf I Die in a Combat Zone\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eJuly, July\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eIn the Lake of the Woods\u003c\/i\u003e received the James Fenimore Cooper Prize from the Society of American Historians and was named \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e magazine's best novel of the year.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50601228894482,"sku":"9780547391175","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d1a39642-d179-4870-8d71-6c3da7eeeea5.jpg?v=1732223606","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-things-they-carried-9780547391175","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}