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Going After Cacciato
by O'Brien, Tim
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0440129664
- ISBN 13
- 9780440129660
- Seller
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New Port Richey, Florida, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Dell Book, 1979. Mass Market Paperback. Good. (3d ptg.) Mass-market paperback, thicker book, colorful illustration on front wrapper of young man's face, a patrol and palm trees, praise at top front from the Boston Sunday Globe, on back wrapper from Philadelphia Inquirer and New York Times Book Review, 395 lightly browned pages plus ads, final page creased at bottom tip. Slight wear to top front tip and spine bottom left edge, light wear to bottom front tip, creases on back wrapper. Good.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Callaghan Books South (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32485
- Title
- Going After Cacciato
- Author
- O'Brien, Tim
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0440129664
- ISBN 13
- 9780440129660
- Publisher
- Dell Book
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- Fiction War-Vietnam
- Bookseller catalogs
- Vietnam Conflict;
Terms of Sale
Callaghan Books South
Books may be returned with 5 days for full refund--in same condition as sent.
About the Seller
Callaghan Books South
Biblio member since 2004
New Port Richey, Florida
About Callaghan Books South
An internet bookstore, we have added 20 books a day to our inventory for a total of more than 40,000, specializing in Poetry, Vietnam Conflict, Native American, Literary Criticism.
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