Word: cacciato
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...Rumor of War” and George Orwell’s “Homage to Catalonia.” This isn’t a memoir, but Tim O’Brien’s novel “Going After Cacciato.” THC: Do you think you’ll ever return to autobiography? AS: I might, though not for a while. I will return to nonfiction, though. The book I’ll be researching this winter and will write next is about an aunt, my mother’s sister, who?...
...question the positions we have taken. When we’re looking for “just the facts, ma’am,” we’re often disappointed when students in our core class have decided to document their own interpretations of Going After Cacciato, instead of just telling us what happens in the story so we can potentially use it as an example on the final. In these cases, we’re hardly using the resources of our peers. If the entire syllabus were on Sparknotes.com, we’d be even happier...
...wife, who has spooks of her own, slip separately through the trapdoors of the mind into the subterranean world where morality, evil and reality itself are shifting phantoms. O'Brien, who served in Vietnam and in 1979 won the National Book Award for Going After Cacciato, once more displays his enormous talent...
...fiction reaches its heights the minute she turns to China. For Tim O'Brien, who deferred his admission as a graduate student at Harvard in order to serve in Vietnam, the elemental theme is his experience there as a shy and questioning infantryman. O'Brien's Going After Cacciato (winner of the National Book Award in 1979) is perhaps the finest imaginative reconstruction of that war; and his story Speaking of Courage (from The Things They Carried, 1990), the most poignant evocation of a Vietnam veteran's displacement upon returning home. In his latest novel, In the Lake...
...combat experiences in Viet Nam. Maybe so. For better or worse, he is fated to write about what he knows: the foot soldier's intimacy with fear and death. He did it well in If I Die in a Combat Zone (1973), and even better in Going After Cacciato...