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Why Are We In Vietnam? (WWVN) is a 1967 novel by the American author Norman Mailer. It focuses on a hunting trip to the Brooks Range in Alaska where a young man is brought by his father, a wealthy businessman who works for a company that makes cigarette filters and is obsessed with killing a grizzly bear.
- Norman Mailer
- 1967
Why are We in Vietnam?'s teen-angst hero, DJ, is the Burroughs-reading son to a corporate executive, and the novel moves toward the defeat of his individual attempt at rebellion: "the experience of a lifetime excites greed in the common man."
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- Paperback
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.”
- Paperback
Jan 12, 2023 · 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.
Jul 18, 2017 · 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...
- Norman Mailer
- Random House Publishing Group, 2017
- 0399591761, 9780399591761
- Why Are We in Vietnam?: A Novel
2 days ago · As a tribute-paying state after throwing off Chinese rule in 938 ce, Vietnam sent lacquerware, animal skins, ivory, and tropical products to the Chinese emperor and received scrolls on philosophy, administration, and literature in return.
Jul 18, 2017 · "The products of America go insane" is what William Carlos Williams said, and the title of the novel, asking us why we are in Vietnam, has a simple answer: because we had to be, by our nature. This is not to let anyone off the the hook by blaming Mailer's act on environment and other extraneous details.
