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Going After Cacciato: A Novel
by O'Brien, Tim
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0440029481
- ISBN 13
- 9780440029489
- Seller
-
Lakewood, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Delacorte Press, 1978 First printing; edgewear, rubbing, closed tears and slight fade to spine of dust jacket with $8.95 price intact; although binding of book is tight, the front free endpaper is separating from binding; light soiling to page edges and some pages have creases on the fore edge; end pages are black and someone wrote in dark ink some initials on the top of the front free endpaper and a name and a phone number on the rear free end paper; because it's dark ink on black endpapers it's not real noticeable; o/w VG-/VG; signed bookplate by author loosely laid in. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very 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
- Evergreen Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ABE-10339623136
- Title
- Going After Cacciato: A Novel
- Author
- O'Brien, Tim
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0440029481
- ISBN 13
- 9780440029489
- Publisher
- Delacorte Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1978
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Evergreen Books LLC
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Lakewood, Colorado
About Evergreen Books LLC
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- O/W
- An abbreviation for otherwise