Why are we in Vietnam?: A novel - Softcover

Norman Mailer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0030599776 ISBN 13: 9780030599774

Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1982

Synopsis

A novel about a hunting trip in Alaska which turns into an initiation rite. Vietnam is mentioned only once and the book can be seen either as an allegory or a symbolic psychic explanation of America’s fighting in Vietnam. The author has won the Pulitzer Prize, The National Book Award for Arts and Letters (1969) and the 14th Annual Award for Outstanding Service to the Arts, McDowell Colony (1973).

About this title

About the Author:

Born in Long Branch, NJ, in 1923, and raised in Brooklyn, Norman Mailer was one of the most influential writers of the second half of the 20th 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 eleventh New York Times bestseller. 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 for The Executioner’s Song and is the only person 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. Mr. Mailer died in 2007 in New York City.

MacLeod Andrews is an actor, voice actor, and audiobook narrator. He has narrated dozens of audiobooks, earning eight AudioFile Earphones Awards and placing as a finalist for the prestigious Audie Award for best narration in 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, and 2015. He is a company member of Rising Phoenix Repertory in Los Angeles.

Review:

“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 shattering social commentary . . . The book is a tour de force, a treatise on human nature, society, and war in flip disguise.” ―Dallas News

“A book of great integrity. All the odd 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

“Original, courageous, and provocative.” ―The New York Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0030599776
• ISBN 13: 9780030599774
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208