| Why Are We in Vietnam? Contributor(s): Mailer, Norman (Author) |
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ISBN: 0399591753 ISBN-13: 9780399591754 Publisher: Random House Trade OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Action & Adventure - Fiction | Coming Of Age - Fiction | War & Military |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2017299891 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.2" W x 8" (0.30 lbs) 208 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 - Chronological Period - 1960's - Chronological Period - 1970's |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "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 |