Tim O'Brien
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| Title | : | Going After Cacciato |
| Author | : | Tim O'Brien |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 351 pages |
| Published | : | September 1st 1999 by Broadway/Crown Publishing Group (first published 1978) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. War. Historical. Historical Fiction. Literature |
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Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereWinner 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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| Original Title: | Going After Cacciato |
| ISBN: | 0767904427 (ISBN13: 9780767904421) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Vietnam |
| Literary Awards: | National Book Award for Fiction (1979) |
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Two stories unfold simultaneously in Going After Cacciato, one I was riveted by and another I felt alienated by. The disjointed nature of the novel didn't come as a shock; Tim O'Brien's masterpiece The Things They Carried was a compilation of harrowing short stories penned between 1975 and 1990 on the subject of the Vietnam War. In this novel, published in 1978, O'Brien's attempt to contrast the external experiences of a young army specialist conscripted into the war while taking the reader intoFirst things first. If you want to read a book about the war in Viet Nam, only one, make it this one. It's 1969, and Cacciato, a soldier in the US Army, has had enough. He deserts, leaving clues for the other men in his unit indicating that he's decided to walk to Paris. Now they're obligated to go after him, to follow him until he's captured. And if that happens to take them to Paris, that's fine with them.It's 1969, and Paul Berlin is a Private First Class in the Viet Nam War. On guard duty at
Tim O'Brien is such an impressive American writer. THE THINGS THEY CARRIED is more widely known than GOING AFTER CACCIATO, but this book is also a heavyweight. More of a meditation on madness and war, this book absolutely blew me away. Amazing...
Similar in approach to The Things They Carried, but not nearly as successful, largely because in trying to get around the problem of how to write a war story about a war as metaphysically unhinged as Vietnam, O'Brien settles here on the weary kelson of the hallucinogenic, it-was-all-a-dream plot that, by its very architectonics, evacuates all the drama from the drama and leaves behind little but the words themselves. For a writer like Pynchon, or Joyce, this might succeed. But O'Brien's success
Similar in approach to The Things They Carried, but not nearly as successful, largely because in trying to get around the problem of how to write a war story about a war as metaphysically unhinged as Vietnam, O'Brien settles here on the weary kelson of the hallucinogenic, it-was-all-a-dream plot that, by its very architectonics, evacuates all the drama from the drama and leaves behind little but the words themselves. For a writer like Pynchon, or Joyce, this might succeed. But O'Brien's success
After reading, The Things They Carried, I immediately ran down to the library to check out OBriens earlier writing, Going After Cacciato. And maybe my expectations were too high, but I was very disappointed in this writing. The Things They Carried was written in such a sophisticated manner. Going After Cacciato seemed jagged and forced. I really cant see what was so special about this book that it was nominated for a bunch of rewards. I can only guess that there was a severe shortage of novels
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