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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780767904421
ISBN: 0767904427
Label: Broadway
Manufacturer: Broadway
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: September 01, 1999
Publisher: Broadway
Release Date: September 01, 1999
Sales Rank: 23163
Studio: Broadway
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Rating:  - About the Power of the Human Imagination
As a huge Tim O'Brien fan, who has read everything he has written, I still think that Going After Cacciato is his best book (although The Things They Carried and In the Lake of the Woods provide stiff competition). Cacciato tells the story of Paul Berlin, an ordinary, decent man who tries to do the best he can amid the horrific circumstances he finds himself in in Vietnam. Berlin is lost and frightened at the war. He has witnessed the traumatic deaths of several fellow soldiers. One night, in ... Read More
Rating: - The Best Novel of the Viet Nam War
With this novel, Tim O'Brien captured the spirit of the frustration, camadarie and confusion of the war in Viet Nam as seen by the foot soldier. Cacciato, the protagonist of the novel becomes the driving force of a quixotic attempt to rescue him desertion. In the loyalty of the platoon, the care of one in the relationship to all, mark this novel.
At once surreal, graphic and hyper realistic, Going After Cacciato is a book that marked Tim O'Brien as a major American writer. His depictions ... Read More
Rating: - One Strange Book - O'Brien Captures the Pointlessness
Contrary to an NYT review,'Going After Cacciato' by Tim O'Brien is indeed a book about war and the men fighting it (leave it to the Times to say something so silly and get away with it). Or, well, it's a book about war until Cacciato walks away from it and then his platoon follows - to Paris. And of course, his escape from the war was about the war, too.
O'Brien flashes back and forth between the real events of the war that happened in the past, the 'trip', and the 'after trip'. I will leave ... Read More
Rating: - Leaving a War
Cacciato walks away from the war, away from Vietnam. He has an atlas and is determined to go to Paris - across India and Persia, through Greece. You know the way. The lieutenant takes his squad and follows him, determined to bring him back.
This is a surreal journey through the countryside of imagination and through the minds of unwilling participants in a senseless war. This is a hazy hallucination, a drug induced introspection, a rambling question without answer. It's a very good book ... Read More
Rating: - a mix of realism and fantasy
Going After Cacciato has some astonishingly harsh, violent observations about war and the men who fight them, but for a "war" novel it has a surprisingly deft touch. There are moving passages about love and friendship, home and domestic life. Really, the full range of human expression about life is explored in this novel, and not merely the situational elements of Vietnam. The imaginative passages of chasing Cacciato becomes for O'Brien an escape valve for the war, a way to play out, in a vast space of complete ... Read More
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