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ANTHONY SWOFFORD FOLLOWS HIS INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER JARHEAD WITH AN UNFORGETTABLE FIRST NOVEL
Anthony Swofford took the literary world by storm with Jarhead, his electrifying memoir of serv-ing as a U.S. marine in the GulfWar. Celebrated for its visceral candor and profane lyricism, Jarhead stands today as a landmark contribution to the literature of war. Now, in his bold fiction debut, Swofford demonstrates the same audacious vision in a story that plumbs the legacies of war, the wish for redemption, and the danger of love.
Seventeen-year-old Severin Boxx lives on Yokota, an enormous American air force base on the outskirts of Tokyo that is home to fourteen thousand U. S. soldiers. Just outside the base lies the busy Haijima rail station; Exit A is one of the many doorways into this place of movement, anonymity, and sudden disappearance. Around Exit A sprawls a mad neon landscape of noodle shops, strip clubs, sushi joints, whorehouses, sake fountains, tattoo parlors, hash... Tovább

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ANTHONY SWOFFORD FOLLOWS HIS INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER JARHEAD WITH AN UNFORGETTABLE FIRST NOVEL
Anthony Swofford took the literary world by storm with Jarhead, his electrifying memoir of serv-ing as a U.S. marine in the GulfWar. Celebrated for its visceral candor and profane lyricism, Jarhead stands today as a landmark contribution to the literature of war. Now, in his bold fiction debut, Swofford demonstrates the same audacious vision in a story that plumbs the legacies of war, the wish for redemption, and the danger of love.
Seventeen-year-old Severin Boxx lives on Yokota, an enormous American air force base on the outskirts of Tokyo that is home to fourteen thousand U. S. soldiers. Just outside the base lies the busy Haijima rail station; Exit A is one of the many doorways into this place of movement, anonymity, and sudden disappearance. Around Exit A sprawls a mad neon landscape of noodle shops, strip clubs, sushi joints, whorehouses, sake fountains, tattoo parlors, hash bars, comic book stores, pachinko parlors, fish shops, and alleys—"the alleys that ali lead somewhere, usually down."
It's here that we first meet Severin, an earnest, muscular high-school-football star and son of a base colonel. Severin is mad for Virginia Kindwall, the base general s daughter, who is a hafu—half American and half Japanese. Beautiful, smart, and utterly rebellious, Virginia has become a petty criminal in the Japanese underground. Severin is soon caught up in Virginia's world, and the young couple fall into trouble way over their heads.
Like Jarhead before it, Anthony Swofford's Exit A is irreverent, erotic, and more than a little wicked, a tale told in a brooding voice filled with the simple human fury of being alive. Vissza