Description

Title: Going After Cacciato (New Delta)

Author: Tim O’Brien

ISBN: 9780385283496

Publisher: Delta

Published: 1979

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Edition: Reissue

Number of Pages: 320

Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.

Publisher : “To call “Going After Cacciato” a novel about war is like calling “Moby Dick” a novel about whales.”

So wrote “The New York Times” of Tim O’Brien’s now classic novel of Vietnam. Winner of the 1979 National Book Award, “Going After Cacciato” captures the peculiar blend of horror and hallucinatory comedy that marked this strangest of wars. Reality and fantasy merge in this fictional account of one private’s sudden decision to lay down his rifle and begin a quixotic journey from the jungles of Indochina to the streets of Paris. Will Cacciato make it all the way? Or will he be yet another casualty of a conflict that seems to have no end? In its memorable evocation of men both fleeing and meeting the demands of battle, “Going After Cacciato” stands as much more than just a great war novel. Ultimately it’s about the forces of fear and heroism that do battle in the hearts of us all.