Exit A - Softcover

""Exit A" boasts a beautifully written hero in naive severin boxx." -- "Seattle Post-Intelligencer"

"In "Exit A", Swofford's prose swaggers...showcasing the genius that made his name in "Jarhead"...proving he can easily hold his own with the giants of American letters." -- "San Francisco Chronicle"

"In "Exit A," Swofford's prose swaggers...showcasing the genius that made his name in "Jarhead."..proving he can easily hold his own with the giants of American letters." -- "San Francisco Chronicle"

"Absorbing...The wacky culture clash that westerners experience in Japan is also carefully observed. Swofford portrays well the two-way love-hate relationships that so often develop when west and east meet." -- The Seattle Times

"Swofford is superb on military life, on the beat and pulse of the hierarchical power and ragged consumption that drive a military base.... [He] has now written two very fine and very different books." -- Bookforum

"Swofford has a great eye for detail and cultural kitsch, which imbues Exit A with a lot of incidental humor despite its weightier themes." -- Los Angeles Times

"Exit A boasts a beautifully written hero in naive severin boxx." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer

"Fascinating...Swift and bold...The tale has undeniable cinematic panache, and Swofford boots it along with the big, thumping V8 of his prose." -- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"In Exit A, Swofford's prose swaggers...showcasing the genius that made his name in Jarhead...proving he can easily hold his own with the giants of American letters." -- San Francisco Chronicle

Anthony Swofford 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 The New York Times, Harper's, Men's Journal, The Iowa Review, and other publications. A Michener-Copernicus Fellowship recipient, he lives in New York.