Going After Cacciato

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Going After Cacciato

novel by O’Brien

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American literature
Realism and metafiction
…itself surreal—by Tim O’Brien in Going After Cacciato (1978) and the short-story collection The Things They Carried (1990).
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…itself surreal—by Tim O’Brien in Going After Cacciato (1978) and the short-story collection The Things They Carried (1990).
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Tim O’Brien
Return from the war, journalism career, and early books
Going After Cacciato (1978), which won a National Book Award, follows both a soldier who abandons his platoon in Vietnam to try to walk to Paris and a fellow infantryman who escapes the war’s horrors by inventing elaborate fantasies about his journey. However, he departed…
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Going After Cacciato (1978), which won a National Book Award, follows both a soldier who abandons his platoon in Vietnam to try to walk to Paris and a fellow infantryman who escapes the war’s horrors by inventing elaborate fantasies about his journey. However, he departed…
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War Stories
13 Modern Writers Who Served in War: Tim O’Brien
Going After Cacciato, which won a National Book Award, follows both a soldier who abandons his platoon in Vietnam to try to walk to Paris and a fellow infantryman who escapes the war’s horrors by inventing elaborate fantasies about his journey. The Things They Carried…
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Going After Cacciato, which won a National Book Award, follows both a soldier who abandons his platoon in Vietnam to try to walk to Paris and a fellow infantryman who escapes the war’s horrors by inventing elaborate fantasies about his journey. The Things They Carried…
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