Why Are We in Vietnam?

A gripping coming-of age story set during a hunting trip in the Alaskan wilderness from one of America's most incisive writers."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 TribuneFeaturing a new foreword by Mailer scholar Maggie McKinleyPublished 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

“"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 ”

“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
 
“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

Born in 1923 in Long Branch, New Jersey, and raised in Brooklyn, New York,Norman Mailerwas one of the most influential writers of the second half of the twentieth century and a leading public intellectual for nearly sixty years. He is the author of more than thirty books.The Castle in the Forest,his last novel, was his eleventhNew York Timesbestseller. His first novel,The Naked and the Dead,has never gone out of print. His 1968 nonfiction narrative,The Armies of the Night,won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He won a second Pulitzer forThe Executioner's Songand is the only person to date to have won Pulitzers in both fiction and nonfiction. Five of his books were nominated for National Book Awards, and he won a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Foundation in 2005. Norman Mailer died in 2007 in New York City.

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