Going after Cacciato A Novel
by O'Brien, Tim
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0440029481
- ISBN 13
- 9780440029489
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good in Fine dust jacket. 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. 0440029481 . Stated First Edition Signed by the Author. Very Good Plus blue cloth with author's signature embossed in gilt on front cover. Front free endpaper attached, but somewhat loose. Former owner's signature on title page. Fine Dust Jacket with Original Price ($8.95) intact. National Book Award Winner. Protected in archival plastic. Gene Lyons, book critic for "The Nation" says: "If better realistic fiction has been written about Vietnam, I have not seen it." O'Brien was a foot soldier in Vietnam. ; Signed by the Author(s) .
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
- Good Books In The Woods (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 889
- Title
- Going after Cacciato A Novel
- Author
- O'Brien, Tim
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0440029481
- ISBN 13
- 9780440029489
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- 0440029481
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