Winner of the 1979 national book award, going after cacciato captures the peculiar mixture of horror and hallucination that marked this strangest of wars. By turns lurid and lyrical, going after cacciato combines a. May 31, 2010 novelist tim obrien served in vietnam as an infantryman in 1968. Going after cacciato mercer island school district. Going after cacciato 1978, which won a national book award, follows both a soldier who abandons his platoon in vietnam to try to walk to. Going after cacciato signed and inscribed by author. An army private reflects on and imagines a journey to. It is told in a dreamscape from the point of view of a young specfour. To call going after cacciato a novel about war is like calling mobydick a novel about whales. Going after cacciato by tim obrien fantastic fiction. All books are first printings of first editions or first american editions unless otherwise noted.
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