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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 · Tim O'Brien. 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 ...
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- Paperback
Chapter 1. Going After Cacciato cuts back and forth between several different time periods, all of which are seen from the perspective of a young, inexperienced soldier named Paul Berlin. As the novel begins, Berlin and his fellow soldiers are in the midst of a brutal war in Vietnam. Berlin’s commanding officers are Lieutenant Corson, an old ...
Going After Cacciato is an intriguing mix of war story, adventure, and psychological exploration.It tells the tale of a young American soldier, Paul Berlin, and his squad’s pursuit of Cacciato, a fellow soldier who has decided to walk away from the war in Vietnam, aiming to find peace by trekking all the way to Paris.
Sep 1, 1999 · Going After Cacciato: A Novel. Paperback – September 1, 1999. "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 ...
- Tim O'Brien
- $13.59
- Broadway Books
The central historical event of Going After Cacciato is the U.S. war in Vietnam. In the Cold War between the capitalist United States and the communist Soviet Union, the United States increased its military force to prevent communism from spreading to the developing countries of the world, such as Chile, Cuba, Indonesia, Iran, and Vietnam.
“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.
