| Anthony Swofford Unabridged CD on 8 Discs 9 Hours Anthony Swofford follows his international best-seller Jarhead
with an unforgettable first novel -- a powerful story about a youth
spent on a U.S. 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........ 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 hafu
-- half American and half Japanese. Beautiful, smart, and utterly
defiant of her father, Virginia has become a petty criminal in the
Japanese underground. 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. Darkly irreverent, frankly erotic, at once suspenseful and emotionally overwhelming, Swofford's Exit A
builds inexorably toward a climax as it audaciously plumbs the legacies
of war, the wish for redemption, and the danger of love.......... |
