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Why Are We in Vietnam?

Norman Mailer

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#3693 of 8,085 books · #1888 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction (1968).

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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Publisher
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
ISBN-13
9780399591754
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Vietnam WarComing of ageMasculinity

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