Going After Cacciato
Language: English
Published by Jonathan Cape, London, United Kingdom, 1978
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Kelleher Rare Books, Naas, IE, IrelandKelleher Rare Books
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Condition: Used - Near fine
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First UK Edition, First Printing. This is a true first edition, first printing (first impression) in a very rare near fine first state unclipped dustjacket. Colour of jacket at spine just a shade lighter than the rest and Light rubbing to the boards otherwise fine unread with no marks, signatures or inscriptions. pp. 171-72 tipped in cancel. The jacket's of most of the first printing of the UK edition were repriced or clipped and often both to find a original priced copy of £4.95 is very uncommon.
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- Title
- Going After Cacciato
- Author
- O'Brien, Tim
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape, London, United Kingdom
- Publication year
- 1978
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0224016261
- ISBN 13
- 9780224016261
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- Fiction
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 mixture of horror and hallucination that marked this strangest of wars.
In a blend of reality and fantasy, this novel tells the story of a young soldier who one day lays down his rifle and sets off on a quixotic journey from the jungles of Indochina to the streets of Paris. In its memorable evocation of men both fleeing from 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.
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Review
In Tim O'Brien's novel Going After Cacciato the theater of war becomes the theater of the absurd as a private deserts his post in Vietnam, intent on walking 8,000 miles to Paris for the peace talks. The remaining members of his squad are sent after him, but what happens then is anybody's guess: "The facts were simple: They went after Cacciato, they chased him into the mountains, they tried hard. They cornered him on a small grassy hill. They surrounded the hill. They waited through the night. And at dawn they shot the sky full of flares and then they moved in.... That was the end of it. The last known fact. What remained were possibilities."
It is these possibilities that make O'Brien's National Book Award-winning novel so extraordinary. Told from the perspective of squad member Paul Berlin, the search for Cacciato soon enters the realm of the surreal as the men find themselves following an elusive trail of chocolate M&M's through the jungles of Indochina, across India, Iran, Greece, and Yugoslavia to the streets of Paris. The details of this hallucinatory journey alternate with feverish memories of the war--men maimed by landmines, killed in tunnels, engaged in casual acts of brutality that would be unthinkable anywhere else. Reminiscent of Joseph Heller's Catch-22, Going After Cacciato dishes up a brilliant mix of ferocious comedy and bleak horror that serves to illuminate both the complex psychology of men in battle and the overarching insanity of war. --Alix Wilber
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Kelleher Rare Books
Naas, IE, Ireland
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