A memoir of the Gulf War by a front-line infantry Marine recounts his struggles with the conflict on the front lines, his girlfriend's infidelity, his battles with fear and suicide, his brushes with death, and his identity as a soldier and an American. Read by Anthony Swofford. Simultaneous. (A Universal Pictures film, releasing November 2005, directed by Sam Mendes, written by William Broyles, Jr., starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx, & Peter Sarsgaard) (Biography)
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L'autore:
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 Ameican 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 Portland, Oregon, where he is at work on a novel.
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Book by Swofford Anthony
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- EditoreSimon & Schuster
- Data di pubblicazione2005
- ISBN 10 0743550919
- ISBN 13 9780743550918
- RilegaturaAudio CD
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