Opening Lines
The Things They Carried
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John Yorke explores The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, novelist and veteran of the Vietnam War. Published in 1990 it’s a collection of interlinked stories about a platoon of American soldiers fighting an invisible enemy in the booby-trapped jungles of Vietnam.
But Tim O’Brien is not telling a straightforward factual war story, he’s also reflecting on the nature of experience and memory,…