Going After Cacciato

Tim O'Brien

ISBN 10: 0224016261 / ISBN 13: 9780224016261

Published by Jonathan Cape, U.K., 1978

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This Is A Near Fine Copy Of The 1978 First U.K. Edition By Jonathan Cape. The Beautiful Dust Jacket (Wrap Around Art By M. S. Chiang) Is Near Fine With A Half Inch Closed Tear At Junction Of Back Panel And Flap. Like All Of These Copies, The Price Has Been Clipped And Replaced With £7.50 Sticker. This American Novel Which Employed The Magical Realism Used By Latin American Writers At That Time Won For Tim O'brien The 1979 National Book Award. "When I Stumbled Across A Mass-Market Copy Of Going After Cacciato, I Almost Didn¿T Read It; A Weak Yellowish Cover Of A Soldier In A Jungle Made It Look Like A Pulpy War-Action Novel, But A Skim Of The First Page Immediately Sucked Me In. . . . Here Was This Novel Where I Kept Having To Pause And Say To Myself Is This True? Can Things Really Work This Way?" Marie Myung-Ok Lee. Seller Inventory # 005469

Bibliographic Details

Title: Going After Cacciato

Publisher: Jonathan Cape, U.K.

Publication Date: 1978

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Edition: 1st Edition

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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.

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