Going After Cacciato
Language: English
Published by Jonathan Cape, U.K., 1978
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Sparkle Books, Calgary, AB, CanadaSparkle Books
AbeBooks seller since August 20, 2008
Condition: Used - Near fine
£ 38.51
Quantity: 1 available
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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
- Title
- Going After Cacciato
- Author
- Tim O'Brien
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape, U.K.
- Publication year
- 1978
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0224016261
- ISBN 13
- 9780224016261
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Seller catalogs
- Fiction, War
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Review
--"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 title" may belong to another edition of this title.
Sparkle Books
Calgary, AB, Canada
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