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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 ...
- Norman Mailer
- 1967
- 1967
- Novel
3.28. 664 ratings68 reviews. 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.
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About Why Are We in Vietnam? “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 Featuring a new foreword by Mailer scholar Maggie McKinley
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17. Juni 2005 · Von Gewalt handelt auch Mailers erster Vietnam-Roman, Why Are We in Vietnam? (1967). Zwar verspricht der Titel eine Auseinandersetzung mit der Frage, die Millionen Menschen auf der...
30. Okt. 2020 · Zusammenfassung. Im Vordergrund des 1967 erschienenen Romans steht nicht, wie der Titel anzudeuten scheint, der Vietnamkrieg, sondern das Erlebnis der Wildnis und der Jagd aus der Sicht eines jungen Texaners.
18. Juli 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 ecstatic. The novel fully confirmed Mailer's stature as one of the most important figures in contemporary American literature.
