FRANKLIN LIBRARY LEATHER Tim O'Brien THE THINGS THEY CARRIED Hand Signed 1st Ed.
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FRANKLIN LIBRARY THE THINGS THEY CARRIED Tim O'Brien With a specially commissioned frontispiece by Steve Karchin Beautiful Topgrain Leather Signed Limited First Edition One of the "Signed First Edition Society" Collection, privately printed by the Franklin Library, and personally signed by author Tim O'Brien I wish Tim O’Brien did not write so beautifully, for he makes it impossible to forget his book… Years from now it will still have that terrible power to make me remember and to make me weep.” Gloria Emerson, The New York Times Part fiction, part true story, The Things They Carried is Tim O'Brien's award-winning collection of linked short stories about a platoon of foot soldiers enmeshed in the horror of the Vietnam War. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Things They Carried was published in 1990. Several of the chapters of the book had been previously anthologized in Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards and The Best American Short Stories , and the title story, originally published in Esquire , won the 1987 National Magazine Award in fiction. But this current work, representing a more total vision, delivers the full power of O’Brien at his best – the stories and their character weaving in and out of each installment, tied together by O’Brien’s own voice, that of a 43 year
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