{"product_id":"exit-a-paperback-2","title":"Exit A - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnthony Swofford\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnthony Swofford follows his international best-seller \u003ci\u003eJarhead\u003c\/i\u003e with an unforgettable first novel -- a powerful story about a youth spent on a U.\u003c\/b\u003eS. air base in Japan and the gritty neon streets just outside it, where the Japanese underworld lurks and a rebellious young girl finds herself in great danger........ \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Seventeen-year-old Severin Boxx, an earnest, muscular high-school-football star, lives on an American air force base on the outskirts of Tokyo. Severin is mad for Virginia Kindwall, the base general's daughter, who is a \u003ci\u003ehafu\u003c\/i\u003e -- half American and half Japanese. Beautiful, smart, and utterly defiant of her father, Virginia has become a petty criminal in the Japanese underground. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Severin is soon caught up in Virginia's world, and together they drift through the mad neon landscape outside the walls of the base, near the busy Haijima rail station, a place of movement, anonymity, and sudden disappearance. Exit A is one of its many shadowy doorways. Severin and Virginia fall into trouble way over their heads and are soon subjected to the enormous, unforgiving tensions between America and Japan. Years later, Severin and Virginia remain lost to each other, until an emotionally frayed, thirty- something Severin embarks on a quest to find Virginia -- and the part of himself taken from him when his boyhood abruptly ended. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Darkly irreverent, frankly erotic, at once suspenseful and emotionally overwhelming, Swofford's \u003ci\u003eExit A\u003c\/i\u003e builds inexorably toward a climax as it audaciously plumbs the legacies of war, the wish for redemption, and the danger of love..........\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnthony Swofford\u003c\/b\u003e served in a U.S. Marine Corps Surveillance and Target Acquisition\/Scout-Sniper platoon during the Gulf War. After the war, he was educated at American River College; the University of California, Davis; and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. He has taught at the University of Iowa and Lewis and Clark College. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, Harper's, Men's Journal, The Iowa Review, \u003c\/i\u003e and other publications. A Michener-Copernicus Fellowship recipient, he lives in New York\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 8.05 x 5.44 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 04, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47254463021305,"sku":"9780743270397","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/grkVeo96fr9780743270397_33c9ebb9-b3b6-4d2c-8fd1-f31a2b538afa.webp?v=1768713099","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/exit-a-paperback-2","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}