Going after Cacciato - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by O'Brien, Tim
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0440029481
- ISBN 13
- 9780440029489
- Seller
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Summerville, South Carolina, United States
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Synopsis
Going After Cacciato is a war novel written by author Tim O'Brien and winner of the National Book Award for fiction in 1979. This complex novel is set during the Vietnam War and is told from the point of view of the protagonist, Paul Berlin. The story traces the events that ensue after Cacciato, a member of Berlin's squad, decides to go AWOL by walking from Vietnam to France, through Asia. Cacciato, an Italian word pronounced "cah-chyah-to" means "hunted"/"caught" in Italian.
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- Bookseller
- Books Tell You Why, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45033
- Title
- Going after Cacciato - 1st Edition/1st Printing
- Author
- O'Brien, Tim
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0440029481
- ISBN 13
- 9780440029489
- Publisher
- Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction / Historical Fiction;
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