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Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails: A Memoir

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Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails: A Memoir

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: A Memoir
by Anthony Swofford

  • Publication Date: June 5, 2012
  • Genres: Autobiography, Biography
  • Hardcover: 300 pages
  • Publisher: Twelve
  • ISBN-10: 1455506737
  • ISBN-13: 9781455506736