Please join the Harvard Club of San Francisco Reading Group to "The Things They Carried" by Tim O’Brien
Zoom meeting
Sunday, August 22
4:30pm PT
HCSF Members: Free, but RSVP required
$10 for Non-Members
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Named a Book of the Century by the NYTimes, this series of overlapping fictional stories is rooted in O’Brien’s experience as a 22 year-old infantryman in Vietnam in 1969-70. After brief stints as a Harvard grad student and Washington Post journalist, O’Brien realized he “would be mad not to tell the stories” he heard from fellow soldiers, with “their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead.” “Rendered with an evocative, quiet precision. . . It is as though Thucyidides had descended from grand politique and strategy to calm dissection of the quotidian efforts of war. . .O’Brien gets it right.” –Washington Post
Space is limited, so register soon. Attendees will be notified of the location a few days before the meeting. Please note home is not wheelchair accessible.
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Zoom link is provided in the event registration confirmation email and at the link below.
Kirsten Miclau
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