Author: timobrien

From the acclaimed author of The Things They Carried: Vietnam veteran Tim O’Brien reflects on his time in the army and the challenges of fatherhood in this moving memoir. “Fans of parenting books, memoirs, and stories of Vietnam War veterans will find enjoyment in these heartfelt words” (Library Journal).

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.    The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the … Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three.   Taught everywhere–from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in…