Going After Cacciato
Language: English
Published by Joathan Cape Ltd., London, 1978
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hardcover, first British edition, 1978, signed and inscribed by the author on the title page "To Jim, whose poems still inspire and move me, Tim O'Brien" presented to Jim Simmerman a published writer and poet, near fine condition in a fine dust jacket, corner clipped bottom front flap and with publisher's sticker price of L7.50(pounds), small stain bottom foredge, bright wrap around jacket, jacket protected with Brodart mylar cover, Viet Nam War novel. Size: Octavo.
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- Title
- Going After Cacciato
- Author
- O'Brien Tim (signed)
- Publisher
- Joathan Cape Ltd., London
- Publication year
- 1978
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Signed
- Inscribed by Author
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0224016261
- ISBN 13
- 9780224016261
- Edition
- First Edition.
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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