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Why Are We in Vietnam? - Norman Mailer

By Norman Mailer

Release Date: 2017-07-18

Genre: Action & Adventure

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“It is impossible to walk away from this novel without being sharply reminded of the fact that Norman Mailer is a writer of extraordinary ability.”—Chicago Tribune

Featuring a new foreword by Mailer scholar Maggie McKinley

Published nearly twenty years after Norman Mailer’s fiction debut, The Naked and the Dead, this acclaimed novel further solidified the author’s stature as one of the most important figures in contemporary American literature. Ranald “D. J.” Jethroe, Texas’s most precocious teenager, recounts a brutal hunting trip he took to Alaska—in a story of fathers and sons, myth and masculinity, character and corruption. Both entertaining and profound, Why Are We in Vietnam? is an exceptional, timeless work awaiting discovery by a new generation of readers.

Praise for Why Are We in Vietnam?

“A book of great integrity. All the old qualities are here: Mailer’s remarkable feeling for the sensory event, the detail, ‘the way it was,’ his power and energy.”—The New York Review of Books

“A tour de force, a treatise on human nature.”—The Dallas Morning News

“A brilliant piece of writing.”—Newsweek

“Original, courageous, and provocative.”—The New York Times

Why Are We in Vietnam? - Norman Mailer

By Norman Mailer

Release Date: 2017-07-18

Genre: Action & Adventure

(0 ratings)
Read Download
“It is impossible to walk away from this novel without being sharply reminded of the fact that Norman Mailer is a writer of extraordinary ability.”—Chicago Tribune

Featuring a new foreword by Mailer scholar Maggie McKinley

Published nearly twenty years after Norman Mailer’s fiction debut, The Naked and the Dead, this acclaimed novel further solidified the author’s stature as one of the most important figures in contemporary American literature. Ranald “D. J.” Jethroe, Texas’s most precocious teenager, recounts a brutal hunting trip he took to Alaska—in a story of fathers and sons, myth and masculinity, character and corruption. Both entertaining and profound, Why Are We in Vietnam? is an exceptional, timeless work awaiting discovery by a new generation of readers.

Praise for Why Are We in Vietnam?

“A book of great integrity. All the old qualities are here: Mailer’s remarkable feeling for the sensory event, the detail, ‘the way it was,’ his power and energy.”—The New York Review of Books

“A tour de force, a treatise on human nature.”—The Dallas Morning News

“A brilliant piece of writing.”—Newsweek

“Original, courageous, and provocative.”—The New York Times

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Tough Guys Don't Dance

Ancient Evenings

Of a Fire on the Moon

An American Dream

The Castle in the Forest

Miami and the Siege of Chicago

The Executioner's Song

The Spooky Art

The Gospel According to the Son

On God

Mind of an Outlaw

Barbary Shore

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Selected Letters of Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer: The Naked and the Dead & Selected Letters 1945-1946 (LOA #364)

Modest Gifts

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A Mysterious Country

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Il nudo e il morto

El combate

Los ejércitos de la noche

La canciĂłn del verdugo

Los desnudos y los muertos

MĂ©moires imaginaires de Marilyn

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Le Parc aux cerfs

Un chĂąteau en forĂȘt

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Na podbĂłj KsiÄ™ĆŒyca

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BĂžddelens sang

L’AmĂ©rique

The Fight

Bivouac sur la lune

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Kampen

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