USA Today reviews Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails by Anthony Swofford
His second memoir, Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails is a gritty, intense and wrenching account of how too much money, sex, drugs and alcohol nearly killed him.
Jun 27, 2012
USA Today
By Elysa Gardner, Bob Minzesheimer, Craig Wilson and Lindsay
June 21, 2012
Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails
By Anthony Swofford
Twelve, 276 pp., $26.99
* * * ½
Former Marine sniper Anthony Swofford hit it big with Jarhead, his 2003 best-selling memoir about the Gulf War that became an acclaimed movie in 2005. Too big. His second memoir, Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails— a line from a James Tate poem — is a gritty, intense and wrenching account of how too much money, sex, drugs and alcohol nearly killed him. In sharp, spare prose, it deals with his abusive dad, a Vietnam vet, and the death of his brother before Swofford finds a measure of peace as a husband and father. —Bob Minzesheimer
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Jun 27, 2012
USA Today
By Elysa Gardner, Bob Minzesheimer, Craig Wilson and Lindsay
June 21, 2012
Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails
By Anthony Swofford
Twelve, 276 pp., $26.99
* * * ½
Former Marine sniper Anthony Swofford hit it big with Jarhead, his 2003 best-selling memoir about the Gulf War that became an acclaimed movie in 2005. Too big. His second memoir, Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails— a line from a James Tate poem — is a gritty, intense and wrenching account of how too much money, sex, drugs and alcohol nearly killed him. In sharp, spare prose, it deals with his abusive dad, a Vietnam vet, and the death of his brother before Swofford finds a measure of peace as a husband and father. —Bob Minzesheimer
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