- Fiction, Young men, Bear hunting, Hunting stories
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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Contemplative, intimate, character-led and spare.
- contemplativerelentless
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- rawmeticulous
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About the book
- Author
- Norman Mailer
- First published
- November 1, 1987
- Pages
- 208
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld and Nicolson, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9780399591754
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“"Well now," said Mrs. Jethroe, the mother of this extraordinary late adolescent on the fast receding previous page, the one who calls himself D.J. (if you recalled), "well, now," said she, "what am I going to do with Ranald?"”
Norman Kingsley Mailer was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, screenwriter and film director. Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Hunter S. Thompson, John McPhee, and Tom Wolfe, Mailer is considered an innovator of narrative nonfiction, a genre sometimes called New Journalism, which superimposes the essay onto the nonfiction novel. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize twice and the National Book Award once. In 1955, Mailer, together with Ed Fancher and Dan Wolf, first published The Village Voice, which began as an arts and politics oriented weekly newspaper distributed in Greenwich Village. In 2005, he won the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letter
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