The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien
They carry guns. They carry grenades. They carry comic books and candy bars and a photo of the girl back home. They carry hope and insect repellant and Bibles; fear, fellowship, funny stories, and sore feet. And when I get shot, they carry me, Tim O’Brien, conscientious objector from Minnesota who is too cowardly to cross the border into Canada and goes to war instead, in literary novel THE THINGS THEY CARRIED. And so they carry broken hearts, broken bodies, and broken dreams. But no matter what else they carry, they will always carry Vietnam.
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NOTE: The above is a sample pitch I wrote for instructional purposes only. This “pitch” was written after the book was published and was never used by the author or anyone else to actually pitch a book.
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