Why are we in Vietnam?
by Norman Mailer · November 1, 1987
Popularity 12
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.
FictionYoung menBear huntingHunting storiesBildungsromansAmerican fiction (fictional works by one author)Fiction, historical, generalVietnam war, 1961-1975Fiction, general