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Going After Cacciato is an anti-war novel written by Tim O'Brien and first published by Delacorte Press in 1978. It won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. O'Brien himself says that "Going After Cacciato is a war novel. However, this is a controversial idea due to the fact that the book is about a soldier going AWOL."
- Tim O'Brien
- 1978
Jan 1, 2001 · Going After Cacciato is less accessible than The Things They Carried because trying to discern the truth of what happens when Cacciato, a young soldier in Vietnam, chooses to go AWOL and walk all the way to Paris is difficult at best.
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Sep 5, 2014 · Going after Cacciato. by. O'Brien, Tim. Publication date. 1979. Topics. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Fiction. Publisher. Dell.
Sep 1, 1999 · 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 ...
- Tim O'Brien
- $13.59
- Broadway Books
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...
Dec 11, 2020 · A novel about an American soldier in Vietnam who decides to leave the war and walk to Paris. The book won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1979 and is available for free download and streaming from the Internet Archive.
A young soldier named Paul Berlin chases after a deserter named Cacciato through Vietnam, Laos, Burma, and Afghanistan. Along the way, he encounters various characters, events, and themes that reflect the absurdity and horror of war.
