Why Are We in Vietnam?
  • Published:
    1977
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Time Period:
    1960's-1970's 20th Century
  • Pages:
    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
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0425033066
    • ISBN13: 9780425033067
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    • Mar-1982
    • Henry Holt
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0030599776
    • ISBN13: 9780030599774
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    • Apr-1991
    • Henry Holt
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0805018808
    • ISBN13: 9780805018806
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    • Aug-2000
    • Picador
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0312265069
    • ISBN13: 9780312265069
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    • Jul-2017
    • Random House
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0399591753
    • ISBN13: 9780399591754
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    • Jan-1988
    • Oxford University Press (UK)
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0192818414
    • ISBN13: 9780192818416
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    • Oct-2013
    • Picador
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1466854898
    • ISBN13: 9781466854895
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    • Jul-2017
    • Random House
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0399591761
    • ISBN13: 9780399591761
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    • Nov-2016
    • Brilliance Audio
    • MP3 CD
    • ISBN: 152263729X
    • ISBN13: 9781522637295
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    • Nov-2016
    • Brilliance Audio
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1522637303
    • ISBN13: 9781522637301
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    • Nov-2016
    • Brilliance Audio
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1522637281
    • ISBN13: 9781522637288



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