Hotels, Hospitals and Jails: A Memoir (Signed First Edition)

Anthony Swofford

ISBN 10: 1455506737 / ISBN 13: 9781455506736

Published by Twelve, 2012

About this Item

New York: TWELVE, 2012. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. A pristine unread copy in mylar dust wrapper protector. SIGNED by author on the title page. New/New, opened only for signature. The author's follow up memoir to JARHEAD. 0.0.

Seller Inventory # 1209-2

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hotels, Hospitals and Jails: A Memoir (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Twelve
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1455506737
• ISBN 13: 9781455506736
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

Following the success of Jarhead, Anthony Swofford assumed he had exorcised his military demons -- but as every veteran knows, that isn't exactly how it works. In these searing, courageous pages, Swofford struggles to make sense of what his military service meant, and to decide -- after nearly ending it -- what his life can and should become.

Consumed by drugs, booze, fast cars and the wrong women, Swofford almost lost everything and everyone that mattered to him. Embarking on a series of RV trips with his dying father, a Vietnam vet, in an attempt to heal their difficult relationship, and meeting a like-minded woman (who will become his wife) in a chance encounter, Swofford begins to grapple with his volatile past and forge a path toward redemption.

HOTELS, HOSPITALS, AND JAILS is a must-read memoir that raises essential questions about masculinity, about fathers and sons, and about love.

About the Author

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; his memoir Jarhead was a major New York Times bestseller, and the basis for the movie of the same name. A Michener-Copernicus Fellowship recipient, he lives in New York City.