Going After Cacciato - Hardcover

O'Brien, Tim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224016261 ISBN 13: 9780224016261

Publisher: Jonathan Cape, 1978

Synopsis

In the jungles of Indochina, Private Cacciato decides to lay down his rifle and embark on a quixotic walk to Paris, leaving in his wake a trail of M&M candies and a platoon intent on bringing him back to the war -- and to reality.

About this title

Review

"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"

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"

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""

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 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jonathan Cape
• Publication date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0224016261
• ISBN 13: 9780224016261
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352