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The Things They Carried

 Tim O’Brien
 

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Bates, Milton J. “Men, Women, and Vietnam.” America Rediscovered: Critical Essays on the Literature and Film of the Vietnam War. Eds. Owen Gilman Jr. and Lorrie Smith, 27–63. New York: Garland, 1990.
 
Beidler, Philip D. American Literature and the Experience of Vietnam. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1982.
 
Calloway, Catherine. “'How to Tell a True War Story': Metafiction in The Things They Carried.Critique 36 (Summer 1995): 249–257.
 
Hellman, John. American Myth and the Legacy of Vietnam. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986.
 
Herzog, Tobey C. Tim O'Brien. New York: Simon and Schuster Macmillan, 1997.
 
Kaplan, Steven. Understanding Tim O'Brien. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1995.
 
Melling, Philip H. Vietnam in American Literature. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1990.
 
O'Brien, Tim. “The Vietnam in Me.” New York Times Magazine, October 2, 1994.
 
Tegmark, Mats. In the Shoes of a Soldier: Communication in Tim O'Brien's Vietnam Narratives. Sweden: Uppsala, 1998.
 
 
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