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Why Are We in Vietnam?

Norman Mailer

Paperback | Pages: 215 pages

Rating: 3.34 | 573 Users | 44 Reviews

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Original Title:	Why Are We in Vietnam?
ISBN:	0312265069 (ISBN13: 9780312265069)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1968)

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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. Now, a new edition of this exceptional work serves as further affirmation of its timeless quality.

Narrated by Ranald ("D.J.") Jethroe, Texas's 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.

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Title	:	Why Are We in Vietnam?
Author	:	Norman Mailer
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 215 pages
Published	:	August 5th 2000 by Picador USA (first published January 1st 1967)
Categories	:	Fiction. War. Literature. American. Politics

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Ratings: 3.34 From 573 Users | 44 Reviews

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Norman Mailers Why are We in Vietnam? is obscene gobbledygook. Characterized as New Journalism, and using as a literary technique an omnipresent stream of consciousness from the perspective of an 18 year old protagonist, a young Texan named DJ. I had to keep reminding myself that when this came out in 1967 it was probably edgy and avant-garde. It is not timeless, though its rambling observation on American male ego could be. If one can get past the thick as molasses run on sentences and casual

An interesting story about two young adults from Texas that go on a hunting trip.

It's rare that I can read an entire book in a day (4 kids & work & etc) but I did that with this. Firstly, it's not about Vietnam. It's the inner monologue of an eighteen year old Texas hipster who's at a dinner party. He's mostly remembering a hunting trip he took two years earlier. The hunting violence is a kind of educational experience for the narrator (see the last page of the novel for where he's going). It's weird and hippyish and perverted and funny, and it's definitely "of its

It was basically Burroughs filtered through the voice of a rich Texas teenager. It's about some rich Dallas oil barons and their kids hunting grizzly bears in Alaska. But written in some gonzo rant style. Other than then the sons getting sent to Vietnam at the end, I'm pretty sure it doesn't have anything to do with Vietnam. Unless you read way into it, which you shouldn't. I think the forward said that the author wanted to write about the characters in Vietnam but didn't make it that far and

why are we in vietnam? offers two teens from texas on a bear hunt in alaska, and nothing at all to do with vietnam. unless of course the bear hunt is an allegory and the two, wealthy, white teens are representative of america and the bear hunt itself --- hyper-violent, totally unecessary, an exercise in excessive masculinity, crude, groteseque, in bad taste, ultimately unwinnable --- is representative of the war america was waging at the time. mailer is an uncommonly powerful writer, but here he

This is a tough one. It's about Alaska, which is why I originally picked it up, probably actually when I was (first) living here. But on my first try, I don't think I made it through even 5 pages before giving up. This time, I promised I'd make it at least to the part where they got to Alaska (probably p.45 or so), and by the time I did, I was hooked.This is a weird book to recommend, because of the... shall we say, EXTREMELY colorful language. It's kind of distracting and hard to read,

I did not like this book. I thought his stream of consciousness style distracted from the main theme, if in fact there was a main theme. I also think that the cuss words and sexual words also were present for embellishment purposes and thus did not forward the story line. Having said this, I did enjoy the 10% of the book that dealt with man's primal instincts in nature. I enjoyed the description on how man senses are heightened and he truly feels alive when he is in nature and faced with the