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| Author | E. M. Corder |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Exeter Books |
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 E. M. Corder 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.