Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien - ISBN: 9780767904421
Paperback
Vietnam war: one soldier deserts, dreams a journey to Paris.

Going After Cacciato

A Novel

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  • Paperback

    368 pages

  • Release Date

    1 September 1999

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Summary

A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE THINGS THEY CARRIED

“To call Going After Cacciato a novel about war is like calling Moby-Dick a novel about whales.”

So wrote The New York Times of Tim O’Brien’s now classic novel of Vietnam. Winner of the 1979 National Book Award, Going After Cacciato captures the peculiar mixture of horror and hallucination that marked this strangest of wars.

In a blend of reality and fantasy, this novel tells the story of a…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780767904421
ISBN-10:0767904427
Author:Tim O'Brien
Publisher:Random House USA Inc
Imprint:Random House Inc
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:368
Release Date:1 September 1999
Weight:261g
Dimensions:203mm x 131mm x 19mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER“Simply put, the best novel written about the war. I do not know … any writer, journalist, or novelist who does not concede that position to O’Brien’s Going After Cacciato.”—Miami Herald“A novel of great beauty and importance.”—Boston Globe“Stark … rhapsodic… . It is a canvas painted vividly, hauntingly, disturbingly by Tim O’Brien.”—Los Angeles Times“As a fictional portrait of this war, Going After Cacciato is hard to fault, and will be hard to better.”—John Updike, The New Yorker

About The Author

Tim O'Brien

Tim O’Brien received the 1979 National Book Award in fiction for Going After Cacciato. His other works include the Pulitzer finalist and a New York Times Book of the Century, The Things They Carried; the acclaimed novels Tomcat in Love and Northern Lights; and the national bestselling memoir If I Die in a Combat Zone. His novel In the Lake of the Woods received the James Fenimore Cooper Prize from the Society of American Historians and was named the best novel of 1994 by Time. In 2010 he received the Katherine Anne Porter Award for a distinguished lifetime body of work and in 2012 he received the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award from the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation. He was awarded the Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing in 2013.

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