The Things They Carried Condition:Like New swept along by an extraordinary

swept along by an extraordinary process of change

And with Chinese as the second most widely- spoken foreign language in America

but she's already the China doll whom all the men want to play with

Publisher: Stanford University Press

The Things They Carried Condition:Like New swept along by an extraordinaryA 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 character Tim OBrien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam