by Anthony Swofford (Author)
Anthony Swofford's grandfather fought in WWII; his father fought in Vietnam; and he - a directionless, testosterone-battered teenager - became a scout/sniper in the marines and fought in the Gulf War. His account of that time is also part of a lineage - after Wilfred Owen, Norman Mailer, Michael Herr and Tim O'Brien, it brings the raw and searing tradition of soldiers' stories up to date. A harrowing yet inspiring portrait of a tormented consciousness struggling for reconciliation and peace, JARHEAD is authentic, revelatory and brilliantly crafted.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 260
Edition: UK ed.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Published: 19 Jan 2004
ISBN 10: 0743239199
ISBN 13: 9780743239196
-- The Sacramento Bee
-- Entertainment Weekly
--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
Author of Any Human Heart
A scathingly honest and bleakly powerful book. A hugely disturbing insight into the minds of the very young men who long to go to war.
Author of Odysseus in America and Achilles in Vietnam
This memoir is not pretty -- but veined with beauty. It is as outrageous, irreverent, funny, and obscene as an Aristophanes comedy, and as rich in pain and moral understanding as the Iliad. Anthony Swofford: remember this name.
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