By Norman Mailer

ISBN-10: 0399591753

ISBN-13: 9780399591754

ISBN-10: 1522637281

ISBN-13: 9781522637288

“It is very unlikely to stroll clear of this novel with out being sharply reminded of the truth that Norman Mailer is a author of awesome ability.”—Chicago Tribune

Featuring a brand new foreword by means of Mailer pupil Maggie McKinley

Published approximately 20 years after Norman Mailer’s fiction debut, The bare and the Dead, this acclaimed novel extra solidified the author’s stature as the most vital figures in modern American literature. Ranald “D. J.” Jethroe, Texas’s such a lot precocious teen, recounts a brutal searching journey he took to Alaska—in a narrative of fathers and sons, fable and masculinity, personality and corruption. either pleasing and profound, Why Are We in Vietnam? is a superb, undying paintings watching for discovery by way of a brand new new release of readers.

Praise for Why Are We in Vietnam?

“A ebook of significant integrity. all of the outdated traits are right here: Mailer’s notable feeling for the sensory occasion, the aspect, ‘the approach it was,’ his energy and energy.”The big apple evaluation of Books

“A journey de strength, a treatise on human nature.”The Dallas Morning News

“A marvelous piece of writing.”—Newsweek

“Original, brave, and provocative.”—The big apple Times

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