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Going After Cacciato
Tim O´brien
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Description for Going After Cacciato
Paperback. Winner of the National Book Award, 'Going After Cacciato' captures the peculiar mixture of horror and hallucination that marked the Vietnam War, this strangest of wars. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 230.
Winner of the National Book Award, `Going After Cacciato' captures the peculiar mixture of horror and hallucination that marked the Vietnam War, this strangest of wars. In a blend of reality and fantasy, this novel tells the story of a young soldier who one day lays down his rifle and sets off on a quixotic journey from the jungles of Indochina to the streets of Paris. In its memorable evocation ... Read more
Winner of the National Book Award, `Going After Cacciato' captures the peculiar mixture of horror and hallucination that marked the Vietnam War, this strangest of wars. In a blend of reality and fantasy, this novel tells the story of a young soldier who one day lays down his rifle and sets off on a quixotic journey from the jungles of Indochina to the streets of Paris. In its memorable evocation ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780006543077
SKU
V9780006543077
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Ref
99-52
About Tim O´brien
Tim O'Brien was born in Minnesota and served as a foot soldier in Vietnam from 1969 to 1970, and after graduate studies at Harvard worked as a reporter for the Washington Post. When `If I Die in a Combat Zone' was published in 1973, it established him as one of the leading American writers of his generation, a status that ... Read more
Reviews for Going After Cacciato
`To call Going After Cacciato a novel about war is like calling Moby-Dick a novel about whales. O'Brien's writing is crisp, authentic and grimly ironic ... a major achievement' New York Times Book Review `Not only the best novel about the Vietnam War, ... Read more