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Product Identifiers

PublisherCrown Publishing Group, T.H.E.

ISBN-100767904427

ISBN-139780767904421

eBay Product ID (ePID)139506

Product Key Features

Book TitleGoing after Cacciato : a Novel

Number of Pages368 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicPsychological, War & Military, Thrillers / Suspense

Publication Year1999

GenreFiction

AuthorTim O'Brien

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight9.2 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN99-029275

Reviews"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 From the Trade Paperback edition., "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'sGoing 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 Cacciatois hard to fault, and will be hard to better." --John Updike,The New Yorker, "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

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisA CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE THINGS THEY CARRIED "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 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. Now with Extra Libris material, including a reader's guide and bonus content

LC Classification NumberPS3565.B75G6 1999