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    <publisher>Houghton Mifflin Harcourt</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2009</dateIssued>
    <edition>1st Mariner Books edition</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>233 pages ; 21 cm.</extent>
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  <abstract>Heroic young men carry the emotional weight of their lives to war in Vietnam in a patchwork account of a modern journey into the heart of darkness.</abstract>
  <tableOfContents>The things they carried -- Love -- Spin -- On the rainy river -- Enemies -- Friends -- How to tell a true war story -- The dentist -- Sweetheart of the song tra bong -- Stockings -- Church -- The man I killed -- Ambush -- Style -- Speaking of courage -- Notes -- In the field -- Good form -- Field trip -- The ghost soldiers -- Night life -- The lives of the dead.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">by Tim O'Brien.</note>
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