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Rent Jarhead
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Format: Mass Market Paperback, Unabridged-CD
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: Sep 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - General
Retail Price: $7.99
Pages: 320
Synopsis
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. Reprint. (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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