Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails: A Memoir

by Anthony Swofford

Book Overview

The publication of Jarhead launched a new career for Anthony Swofford, earning him accolades for its gritty and unexpected portraits of the soldiers who fought in the Gulf War. It spawned a Hollywood movie. It made Swofford famous and wealthy. It also nearly killed him.

Now with the same unremitting intensity he brought to his first memoir, Swofford describes his search for identity, meaning, and a reconciliation with his dying father in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1455506737
• ISBN13: 9781455506736
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Twelve
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"