Going After Cacciato: A Novel - Hardcover

O'Brien, Tim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0440029481 ISBN 13: 9780440029489

Publisher: Doubleday, 1978

Synopsis

The winner of the 1979 National Book Award presents the story of men meeting the demands of battle and facing the forces of fear and heroism in their own hearts. Reprint.

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Review:

‘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, but among the finest works of fiction in contemporary American literature’ Philip Caputo, Esquire

‘His irony recalls that of Stendhal, his landscapes have the breadth and scope of Tolstoy’s, and the essential American innocence of his vision deserves to stand beside that of Stephen Crane’ National Book Award citation

About the Author:

Tim O'Brien received the 1979 National Book Award in Fiction for Going After Cacciato. His novel The Things They Carried won France's prestigious Prix de Meilleur Livre Etranger and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. His two most recent novels, In the Lake of the Woods and Tomcat in Love, were national bestsellers.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0440029481
• ISBN 13: 9780440029489
• Binding: Hardcover