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Why Are We in Vietnam?
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Why Are We in Vietnam? Paperback - 2000

by Norman Mailer


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When Why Are We in Vietnam? was published in 1967, almost twenty years after The Naked and the Dead, the critical response was ecstatic. The novel fully confirmed Mailer's stature as one of the most important figures in contemporary American literature. Now, a new edition of this exceptional work serves as further affirmation of its timeless quality.

Narrated by Ranald ("D.J.") Jethroe, Texas's most precocious teenager, on the eve of his departure to fight in Vietnam, this story of a hunting trip in Alaska is both brilliantly entertaining and profoundly thoughtful.

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Well, now," said Mrs. Jethroe, the mother of this extraordinary late adolescent on the fast receding previous page, the one who calls himself D.J. (if you recalled) "well, now," said she, "what am I going to do with Ranald?

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  • Title Why Are We in Vietnam?
  • Author Norman Mailer
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: first
  • Pages 215
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Picador USA, New York
  • Date August 5, 2000
  • ISBN 9780312265069 / 0312265069
  • Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.27 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Bildungsromane, Hunting stories
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 91003439
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Among Norman Mailer's other achievements are The Naked and the Dead, The Armies of the Night, for which he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1968, and The Executioner's Song, which won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize.

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