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by: Anthony Swofford
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0681144084
Label: Simon & Schuster Trade
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Trade
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: 2007
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Trade
Studio: Simon & Schuster Trade
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Rating: - An enjoyable but sometimes unbelievable novel
Having been stationed in Okinawa, I feel the author did a good job of depicting life on and around a military base (even though it was at Yokota, on the mainland.) I particulary liked his portrayal of the general--it was very realistic. Overall, I think the author did a good job with characterization.
However, I think the novel suffers from trying to cover too many years. In doing so, the reader misses out on possible important events (e.g. the years one character spends in prison ... Read More
Rating: - Bland treatment
I loved the opening two pages of this novel but found it bland after that. Some readers noted that Exit A presents a unique story or covers a unique theme, but Swofford doesn't really take the subject beyond the obvious. We know that there are tensions between our military personnel and the native populations in the countries in which our bases are located (the latest rape case in Japan is just one instance, of course).
Swofford offered me nothing new about military brats or children ... Read More
Rating:  - Scribner NEW Pulp-Fiction!
I only finished this novel so that I could write an full and honest review about it. You may notice that this book doesn't come in paperback. There's a reason for that... Once you get the book, you may also notice that ther are NO reviewer praise quots on the dust jacket, in fact, ALL the praise is for JARHEAD! There's a reason for that as well. THIS BOOK SUCKS! Mr....(a Top 1000 Reviewer) makes excelent points (even if his rating is 3-Stars higher) which I will not rehash here. Just read his review. ... Read More
Rating:  - A worthy sophomore debut
Having read and enjoyed Jarhead, I eagerly awaited Swofford's debut novel, Exit A. It's the story of a confused young man and a desperate young woman who eventually reunite in their early thirties. It takes place mostly in the Tokyo area in the late 1980's on an American military base. There is some autobiographical background to the book that Swofford skillfully brings to the forefront. His characters have believability. As for the readability of the book, the writing, at times, seems as though it was done ... Read More
Rating: - Potential is Undermined by Too Many Implausibilities
Having mostly enjoyed Swofford's first book, the hugely successful Gulf War memoir Jarhead, I was curious to see what his fiction would be like. This somewhat uneven debut is written in much the same style prose, and does an equally good job taking the reader into a world they probably don't know firsthand. In Jarhead, Swofford himself was our guide to the first Gulf War, while here teenage Severin Boxx is our all-American guide to life on an American military base in Tokyo.
The first section is ... Read More
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