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O'Brien, Tim | Going After Cacciato | Signed First Edition UK Copy
Going After Cacciato | O'Brien, Tim | Signed First Edition UK Book


 
GOING AFTER CACCIATO by Tim O'Brien
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First UK edition, first printing, mint, new/unread in a flawless dustjacket , *AUTHOR AUTOGRAPHED bookplate. 1978 LON: Cape ISBN 9780224016261
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GOING AFTER CACCIATO by Tim O'Brien - SIGNED FIRST EDITION UK BOOK

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"In October, near the end of the month, Cacciato left the war."

In Tim O'Brien's novel Going After Cacciato the theater of war becomes the theater of the absurd as a private deserts his post in Vietnam, intent on walking 8,000 miles to Paris for the peace talks. The remaining members of his squad are sent after him, but what happens then is anybody's guess: "The facts were simple: They went after Cacciato, they chased him into the mountains, they tried hard. They cornered him on a small grassy hill. They surrounded the hill. They waited through the night. And at dawn they shot the sky full of flares and then they moved in.... That was the end of it. The last known fact. What remained were possibilities."

It is these possibilities that make O'Brien's National Book Award-winning novel so extraordinary. Told from the perspective of squad member Paul Berlin, the search for Cacciato soon enters the realm of the surreal as the men find themselves following an elusive trail of chocolate M&M's through the jungles of Indochina, across India, Iran, Greece, and Yugoslavia to the streets of Paris. The details of this hallucinatory journey alternate with feverish memories of the war--men maimed by landmines, killed in tunnels, engaged in casual acts of brutality that would be unthinkable anywhere else. Reminiscent of Joseph Heller's Catch-22, Going After Cacciato dishes up a brilliant mix of ferocious comedy and bleak horror that serves to illuminate both the complex psychology of men in battle and the overarching insanity of war.

"To call Going After Cacciato a novel about war is like calling Moby-Dick a novel about whales."

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