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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. As the novel progresses, the ...
Why are We in Vietnam?'s teen-angst hero, DJ, is the Burroughs-reading son to a corporate executive, and the novel moves toward the defeat of his individual attempt at rebellion: "the experience of a lifetime excites greed in the common man." Despite the blunt criticisms of managerial values (M.A. Pete being "Medium Asshole Pete"), his young ...
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.”
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- Norman Mailer
Jul 18, 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...
Jul 18, 2017 · 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.”
In Why Are We in Vietnam? Mailer creates a fictional equivalent to siren onslaught and, at the same time, attempts the more difficult task of becoming a writer who is a second Ulysses: Postulate a modern soul marooned in constipation, emptiness, boredom and a dull flat terror of death.
