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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.
Why are We in Vietnam is Norman Mailer’s novel protesting the war, first published in 1967. It is the last novel he wrote before writing his famous non-fiction accounts of the march on the Pentagon and the 1968 political conventions.
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.”
18 de jul. de 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...
18 de jul. de 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 author’s stature as one of the most important figures in contemporary American literature.
When Why are We in Vietnam? was published in 1967, almost twenty years after The Naked and the Dead, the critical response was cestatic. Narrated by Ranald (D.J) Jethroe, Texas most precocious teenager, on the eve of his departure to fight in Vietnam, this story of a hunting trip in Alaska is both brilliantly entertaining and profoundly thoughtful.
During this time, he spoke out frequently against the war, and in 1967 published the stylistically innovative Why Are We In Vietnam?, often read as an allegorical criticism of the national mindset that led to America’s involvement in the unwinnable war.
