Author(s): Anthony Swofford

SECONDHAND BOOKS | Literary Fiction

Anthony Swofford's memoir of serving as a US marine in the Gulf War was an international sensation, made into an acclaimed film by director Sam Mendes. A meditation on manhood and masculinity, Jarhead rapidly established itself as a classic piece of war literature. Suffused with the same intensity of emotion and facility of language, Exit A tells the story of an American boy growing up on a US military base in Japan in the 1980s and how he returns there in the present day to search for the girl he once loved. 1989. Severin Boxx is the son of an Air Force pilot and lives on an Air Force base in Japan. He is a muscular, earnest 17 year

2007. A trade paperback copy in fine, unmarked and unread condition.