Why Are We in Vietnam?

<b>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.--<i>Chicago Tribune</i></b> <p/><b>Featuring a new foreword by Mailer scholar Maggie McKinley</b> <p/>Published nearly twenty years after Norman Mailer's fiction debut <i>The Naked and the Dead </i> this acclaimed novel further solidified the author's stature as one of the most important figures in contemporary American literature. Ranald D. J. Jethroe Texas's most precocious teenager recounts a brutal hunting trip he took to Alaska--in a story of fathers and sons myth and masculinity character and corruption. Both entertaining and profound <i>Why Are We in Vietnam? </i>is an exceptional timeless work awaiting discovery by a new generation of readers. <p/><b>Praise for <i>Why Are We in Vietnam?</i></b> <p/> 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.<b>--<i>The New York Review of Books</i></b> <p/> A tour de force a treatise on human nature.<b>--<i>The</i> <i>Dallas Morning News</i></b> <p/> A brilliant piece of writing.<b><i>--Newsweek</i></b> <p/> Original courageous and provocative.<b><i>--The New York Times</i></b>