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Sto caricando le informazioni... Exit A: A Novel (edizione 2007)di Anthony Swofford
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I listened to the audio version of this book. While the narration was excellent, the story was a bit convoluted and unnatural. It is basically a story about a bunch of people doing really stupid things for really stupid reasons and then dealing with the consequences of their actions. I found it lacking in character development, although there was plenty of opportunity to imagine the lives of the various characters. There was an abundance of WTF? moments and the resolution was so implausible, it actually worked. I didn't dislike the book but I don't think I would recommend it. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"Seventeen-year-old Severin Boxx lives on Yokota, an enormous American air force base on the outskirts of Tokyo that is home to fourteen thousand U.S. soldiers and a large contingent of long-range nuclear bombers. Just outside the base lies the busy Haijima rail station. Exit A is one of the many doorways into this place of movement, anonymity, and sudden disappearance. Much of the novel's action transpires in the netherworld around Exit A, a mad neon landscape of noodle shops, strip clubs, sushi joints, pawnshops, whorehouses, sake fountains, military surplus stores, tattoo parlors, hash bars, comic book stores, pachinko parlors, fish shops, and alleys - "the alleys that all lead somewhere, usually down."" "It's here, not long before the Gulf War begins, that we first meet Severin, an earnest, muscular high-school-football star and son of a base colonel. Like most of the other young American men on the air base, 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 a father who wields godlike military power, Virginia has become a petty criminal in the Japanese underground." "Severin is soon caught up in Virginia's world. But theirs is not a typical high school romance; they fall into trouble way over their heads and are quickly subjected to the enormous, unforgiving tensions between America and Japan - a relationship still informed by the long shadows of World War II and America's use of the atomic bomb." "Years later, Severin and Virginia remain lost to each other - until an emotionally frayed, thirtysomething Severin embarks on a quest to find Virginia and, in so doing, the part of himself taken from him when his boyhood abruptly ended."--BOOK JACKET. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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The parts about the life of base brats was interesting as I'm sure these kids frequently have interesting adventures as they try to rebel and prove themselves to their military fathers.
However, I felt that Severin was more interested in bedding every half-attractive female that came his way and had a very high opinion of his abilities that was a bit obnoxious. ( )