Ebook {Epub PDF} Why Are We in Vietnam? by Norman Mailer

Why are We in Vietnam is Norman Mailer’s novel protesting the war, first published in It is the last novel he wrote before writing his famous non-fiction accounts of the march on the Pentagon and the political conventions. Mailer was strongly opposed to the war and used a very creative, humorous but dark format to convey his feelings/5. Norman Mailer’s novel purports to answer the title question through the story of a big game hunt in the wilds of Alaska, which seems to imply that Americans (or at least Texans—the president at the time was a Texan, you know) are in Vietnam because they like killing and harbor a /5(18).

Why Are We in Vietnam? was the closest Mailer came in purely fictional form to capturing the absurdity of the events he observed in American social and political life in the s. Ostensibly, Mailer's novel relates a story told by D.J., an eighteen-year-old boy, as he sits "grassed out" at a dinner party given in his honor. Read "Why Are We in Vietnam? A Novel" by Norman Mailer available from Rakuten Kobo. "It is impossible to walk away from this novel without being sharply reminded of the fact that Norman Mailer is a writer. Norman Kingsley Mailer (Janu - Novem) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, activist, filmmaker and actor. In a career spanning over six decades, Mailer had 11 best-selling books, at least one in each of the seven decades after World War II—more than any other post-war American writer.

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