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...VIETNAM? by Norman Mailer. 208 pages. Putnam...
...better question is: Why did Norman Mailer write this book? Even better: Why did Putnam publish it? Never once does Mailer comment on the war n Vietnam. Even the name Vietnam is mentioned only twice in the book, and then in the final paragraph...
Alaska a novel. Beyond that, they prefer to pass all judgments on to the readers. Says the jacket blurb: "There will be some who say Why Are We in Vietnam? is the first classic Norman Mailer has written. Others are sure to suggest it is the most foul-mouthed book to come along since publishers were pups...
...fact, the book is a wildly turgid monologorrhea narrated by "D.J.," an 18-year-old Dallas scion, who spews obscenity like-like Norman Mailer...
...works of William Burroughs (Naked Lunch, Nova Express) have been taken seriously, even solemnly, by some literary types, including Mary McCarthy and Norman Mailer. Actually, Burroughs' work adds up to the world's pluperfect put-on. The publisher's blurb on the dust jacket attempts to legitimize his latest effusion thus: "Through winds of time, in strange beds, past silent obsidian temples, William Burroughs once again shuttles us back and forth between lunar worlds and the wired electric maze of the city. He presents us with a universe threatened with complete control of communications by the Nova...