Tim O'Brien VIP Ticket Package

Choose from one of three VIP ticket packages for Tim O'Brien's discussion of his award-winning book The Things They Carried.

All proceeds benefit programming offered by the Kansas City Public Library.

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Package 1

$50
Includes a reserved wing seat in the first two rows of the Truman Forum Auditorium, an authorgraphed copy of The Things They Carried.

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Package 2

$100
Includes a reserved center seat in the second row of the Truman Forum Auditorium, an autographed copy of The Things They Carried.

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Package 3
$250
Includes a reserved center seat in the first row of the Truman Forum Auditorium, an autographed copy of The Things They Carried, and private dinner with O'Brien and Library Director Crosby Kemper III following the program.

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The Vietnam War still has the power to divide Americans between those for and against it -- and just as surely, between those who remember the era firsthand and those not yet born when the troops returned home. There may be no better bridge across those twin divisions than Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried.

He discusses the seminal account of a fictional platoon on a battlefield without a front, dodging sniper fire and the soldiers’ own misgivings. Four decades after the war’s end, it continues to win legions of dedicated readers both in uniform and out. Event details at kclibrary.org.

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