Going After Cacciato

Name: Going After Cacciato
Author: Tim O'Brien

by Tim O'Brien

Soldier fantasizes pursuing deserter across continents during Vietnam War

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Tim O'Brien

American novelist and memoirist whose Vietnam War fiction is among the most powerful war literature in the American canon. The Things They Carried blurs memoir and fiction to interrogate the nature of truth in storytelling. His work is required reading in American high schools and universities.

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