The Deer Hunter (novel)
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Novel |
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Publication date | 1979 |
Media type | Print (hardback) |
Pages | 189 pp |
ISBN | 0-89673-035-2 |
OCLC | 5653595 |
The Deer Hunter is a novelization by the American writer based upon the screenplay by Deric Washburn and Michael Cimino of the 1978 war drama film The Deer Hunter, a film that won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director.
The novel is set in southern Vietnam, in Pittsburgh and in working-class Clairton, Pennsylvania, a Monongahela River town south of Pittsburgh. The book follows a trio of Rusyn American[1] steel worker friends—Michael "Mike" Vronsky, Steven Pushkov, and Nikanor "Nick" Chevotarevich—both before and during their infantry service in the Vietnam War.
The epigraph is from Ernest Hemingway:[2]
There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
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- 1979 American novels
- Novels based on films
- Novels set in Pittsburgh
- 1970s novel stubs