Descripción
Libro Exit A. Sinopsis libro, reseña libro. The year is 1989. Severin Boxx is the son of an Air Force pilot and lives on an Air Force base in Japan. He’s a muscular, earnest 17-year-old who plays on the base’s football team. Severin loves, from afar, Virginia Kindwall, the daughter of the general who runs the base. Virginia, whose Japanese mother died in childbirth while her father served in Vietnam, is tough and sophisticated beyond her years. She has fallen in with the Japanese underground, and her dealings result in her disappearance and Severin’s forced return to the United States.
Years later, Severin and Virginia remain lost to each other – until an emotionally frayed, 30-something Severin embarks on a quest to find Virginia, and reclaim the part of himself taken from him when his boyhood abruptly ended. Libro Exit A.
Bruno –
If you’re looking for a spoiled rich kid’s story you’ve come to the wrong place. There is no Holocaust tie-in, no sex abuse, no prep schools and no shrinks.
This is a novel about the ordinary Americans who fight our wars abroad. I give Swofford top marks in his depiction of the female psyche, in his characterization of Virginia, the «hafu» daughter of an American base general and his late Japanese wife. I identified with both protagonists — the frustrated female would-be juvenile delinquent, and Severin, the idealistic squeaky clean football player who quite understandably falls in her thrall. It took me back thirty years to when I was these kids’ age — it’s no small feat to write about teenagers as they really think and behave at the time — there is no sense of the wise adult overlaying their thoughts and actions.
Like another reviewer, I’ve thus far failed to read Jarhead, as I avoid all super-hyped blockbusters till the dust settles out and I can read them for themselves,and not through a lense of envy or hero worship. So I can honestly recommend this book on its own merits, and credit it for breaking many of the tired cliches of modern fiction.
This freshman effort was, if anything, underhyped when it came out this winter, which is odd, because its subject matter — American families whose livelihoods,identities and souls belong to the military — is extremely topical. It’s an important book for now, and I’d venture, forever.