The Things They Carried
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien is a collection of vignettes about the war experience in
O'Brien has an incredible ability for communicating about what motivates him to write. In doing so, he provides some powerful insights into the inner motivations for writing as well.
"The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in this way memory and imagination and language combine to make spirits in the head."
I sincerely appreciate the recommendation I was given to read this book: it could have not come at a better time -Thank you G.
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