Norman Mailer's Cherry Pie
Eliot Fremont-Smith's 'Books of The Times' review of Why Are We in Vietnam? (8 September 1967), praising it as 'the most original, courageous and provocative novel so far this year' and reading the bear hunt as an equals sign on the war. Full text held (rights pending).
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Eliot Fremont-Smith. “Norman Mailer’s Cherry Pie.” The New York Times (“Books of The Times”), 8 September 1967, p. 37.
An admiring daily-Times review of Why Are We in Vietnam?. Fremont-Smith calls Mailer “not its Hemingway but its Swift,” reads the Alaskan bear hunt as “the shortest possible equals sign” on the war — “violence is as American as cherry pie” — and judges the book “the most original, courageous and provocative novel so far this year.” Full text on the full-text page (rights pending).