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by Tim O'Brien

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Tim O'Brien

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978-0440329664

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0440329663

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Laurel (September 15, 1980)

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In Going After Cacciato, O’Brien moves into the first rank. A strong and convincing novel that deserves its National Book Awar. oes well beyond mere disillusionment about the war and national policy. It is a book about the imagination itself. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher.

Going After Cacciato is an anti-war novel written by Tim O'Brien and first published by Delacorte Press in 1978. National Book Award for Fiction

Going After Cacciato is an anti-war novel written by Tim O'Brien and first published by Delacorte Press in 1978. National Book Award for Fiction ". This complex novel is set during the Vietnam War and is told from the third person limited point of view of the protagonist, Paul Berlin.

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

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. 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

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FREE shipping on qualifying offers. A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE THINGS THEY CARRIED To call Going After Cacciato a novel about war is like calling Moby-Dick a novel about whales. Winner of the 1979 National Book Award.

Going After Cacciato book. I can wake up hungover, drink a liter of coffee, and crank out an essay with a title like Intertextuality in Victorian Memoir: the Solipsism of Affect, or some such mumbo-jumbo, and it’ll make your average literature professor at The Community College of Seriously Misfortuned Let me tell you something about Tim O’Brien. Tim O’Brien can write.

Going After Cacciato O& Tim Random House (USA) 9780767904421 : A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK . Winner of the 1979 National Book Award, Going After Cacciato captures the peculiar mixture of horror and hallucination that marked this strangest of wars

Going After Cacciato O& Tim Random House (USA) 9780767904421 : A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE THINGS THEY CARRIED To call Goin. 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.

He sang marching songs and nursery ballads. Sometimes he sang folk songs, though he was not a radical and despised music created for a cause. The men in the Third Squad liked his melancholy songs best. Songs about going home, and families, and girlfriends. He sang these songs with his heart.

Complete summary of Tim O’Brien's Going After Cacciato. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Going After Cacciato

Complete summary of Tim O’Brien's Going After Cacciato. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Going After Cacciato. An army private reflects on and imagines a journey to Paris as he stands sentry duty in Vietnam. Going After Cacciato, O’Brien’s third published book, was a breakthrough for the writer. He returned to his experiences in Vietnam, first developed in his 1973 memoir, If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home, for his material; however, Going After Cacciato is a very different book from the earlier one in content, style, theme, and organization.

Other Books Related to Going After Cacciato. Going After Cacciato was one of the earliest American novels about the war in Vietnam to win critical and popular acclaim. As such, it inspired a wave of Vietnam novels, many of which were written in a similarly spare, fragmented style. One of the most notable Vietnam books written in the same period as Going After Cacciato was Michael Herr’s Dispatches (1977). War wounds: While he was serving as a soldier in Vietnam, O’Brien sustained a serious shoulder wound.

"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'Brein's now classic novel of Vietnam. Winner of the 1979 National Book Award, Going After Cacciato captures the peculiar blend of horror and hallucinatory comedy that marked this the strangest of wars. Reality and fantasy merge in this fictional account of one private's sudden discussion to lay down his rifle and begin a quixotic journey from the of Indochina to the streets of Paris. Will Cacciato make it all the way? Or will he be yet another casualty of a conflict that seems to have no end? In its memorable evocation of men both fleeing and meeting the demands of the 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.

Alsalar

I didn't think a book about being a soldier in Viet Nam could top Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried," a book I have read several times and have used to teach writing techniques. But the author's earlier novel, "Going After Cacciato," is superb. Each soldier's life comes to shape, even in their daydreams and nightmares. O'Brien paints an intimate picture of what the soldier has to do in mind and body to get through another day. The daily confusions, the exhaustion, the mindgames.... I hope this book is read widely by anyone alive now or in the future who wants to understand what war does and what being a soldier means.

Winasana

Going After Cacciato is Tim O'Brien's National Book Award winning novel. It is told in a dreamscape from the point of view of a young "Spec-Four". I found this novel to be an engaging and entertaining depiction of the Vietnam War, but I enjoyed The Things They Carried more for its minimalism and brutality. Going After Cacciato is part war, part young man's fantasy - a daydream of a deployed soldier. If you are looking for realism, read The Things They Carried.

doesnt Do You

This book has what you expect from Tim O'Brien: guts, grit,character, and truth which defies sanity. The characters match the insanity of war in an "arm wrestle" of adaptation of their minds to circumstance. A different kind of reality emerges, one is which the character of mind does not emerge as polished or pretty, and yet, for all that, it is somehow even more heroic. Tim O'Brien needs to exist in order for us to come to terms with the profundity of the questions of war that are otherwise easy to dismiss because we quail into forgetfulness around horrors we can't understand. O'Brien takes us to a place where we can do that, and still emerge whole, at least, as whole as we ever get!

Winn

O'Brien is a great writer, but when I got to the point where I realized what was actually going on in regards to the plot, it was very difficult to sustain my enthusiasm to keep reading, although I did finish. It's tough to say more without spoiling the book, but let's just say the idea was interesting but the execution left a bit to be desired.

Sadaron above the Gods

As usual, Tim O'Brien's writing is first-rate and that is what garners this novel of Vietnam an extra half-star. Overall, the story is well-crafted. In certain parts, however, the story jumps around overmuch such that the reader might not know if he or she is in a flashback or not. (There are three "timelines" in the book.) The flashbacks, in fact, are probably the most interesting, and are relayed primarily through the perspective of Specialist Four Paul Berlin. Another part of the story takes place at night in a watchtower on an isolated beach, while the third follows Berlin and his group of fellow soldiers in pursuit of Cacciato, who deserts his team in order to make his way overland to Paris. All of these timelines are visited and revisited throughout the novel.

If this is the first Tim O'Brien novel you've read, then you won't be disappointed by his other Vietnam works such as The Things They Carried [Paperback] and If I Die in a Combat Zone : Box Me Up and Ship Me Home which are better. There are aspects of "Going After Cacciato" which are unrealistic and not fully fleshed out. Although the reason for this becomes clear by the close of the book, I was left with a disappointed feeling. O'Brien is still, however, head and shoulders above many other writers out there. Recommended with the caveat that you lower your expectations for "Going After Cacciato," pay attention to the timelines (particularly the watchtower part) and enjoy the ride.

Era

Haven't read the whole book yet...but it was recommended to me by my....wait for it.... 17-year-old son after reading it in Lit class at HS. I admit I find it a bit hard to track the story within the style it is written...BUT....my son assures me that when I finish the book it will all make sense and it will make my brain have an aaahhhh haaaaa moment.

zmejka

Ironic indeed is the fact that this is an absolutely fantastic book except for the parts that deal with going after Cacciato. The on-the-road-to-Paris chapters pale in comparison to the rest of the book; especially once you realize this journey is imagined, these sections are little more than tedious and annoying distractions. A cute ploy that just doesn't work. Maybe this is a case of a young and gifted writer trying a bit too hard to be clever and literary and artsy and award-winning. But jettison those chapters and you're left with a stunning accomplishment, a glimpse of a writer who can talk about war in ways you've never heard and a promise for what might come next. A promise so fully delivered several years later in The Things They Carried.

I like Tim O'Brien's war stories. I would give "Matterhorn" and "The Things They Carried", 5 stars. This is also a war story but it didn't do anything for me. It kept me reading to the end which is always worth 3 stars to me, but it is just nothing I would share with friends or family.

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