Going After Cacciato
 

Going After Cacciato

by Tim O'Brien

"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... (read more)

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Gayle M
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A fascinating way to show what the human psyche will do to get away from it all. It's equal parts funny, terrifying, and ultimately sad. It's a story of a guy who's chasing after a guy when really, maybe, he wants to be Cacciato, wants to be the one with the balls to jump up and run away.

But it's also a story about the men who don't see any choice but to stay. About old war horses remembering World War II, and young guys who are just a bit too frightened to do anything but follow...

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