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Going After Cacciato
by Tim O'Brien

List Price: $13.00
Pages: 368
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 0767904427
Publisher: Broadway

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Author Biography



A native of Worthington, Minnesota, Tim O'Brien graduated in 1968 from Macalester College in St. Paul. He served as a foot soldier in Vietnam from 1969 to 1970, after which he pursued graduate studies in government at Harvard University and later he worked as a national affairs reporter for the Washington Post. He now lives in Massachusetts.

Other books by Tim O'Brien include If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home, The Things They Carried, Northern Lights, The Nuclear Age, and In the Lake of the Woods. Going After Cacciato won the National Book Award in 1979. The Things They Carried was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In the Lake of the Woods won the James Fenimore Cooper Prize from the society of American Historians and was selected as the best novel of 1994 by Time magazine. His latest novel, Tomcat in Love (1998), was a New York Times bestseller.

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