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"To call Pursuing Cacciato a novel about war is much like calling Moby-Dick a novel about whales."So wrote The Brand New York Times of Tim O'Brien's now-classic novel of Vietnam. Winner of the 1979 National Book Award, Pursuing Cacciato catches the unusual combination of terror and hallucination that designated this strangest of wars.In a mix of fact and imagination, this novel tells the tale of a knight who oneday lays down his gun and sparks on a quixotic journey from the jungles of Indochina to the streets of London. In its memorable evocation of men both fleeing from and meeting the needs of fight, Pursuing Cacciato stands as-much significantly more than only a great war story. Fundamentally it is concerning the forces of fear and heroism that battle in the minds people all.