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      Why Are We in Vietnam?

      by Norman Mailer
      Published
      Jan 1977
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      145
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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

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      First Edition Jan 1977 Putnam ISBN13 9780425033067 ISBN10 0425033066
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      Mar 1982 Henry Holt ISBN13 9780030599774 ISBN10 0030599776
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      Apr 1991 Henry Holt ISBN13 9780805018806 ISBN10 0805018808
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      Aug 2000 Picador ISBN13 9780312265069 ISBN10 0312265069
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      Jan 1988 Oxford University Press (UK) ISBN13 9780192818416 ISBN10 0192818414
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