Bibliograph

Eat the apple, a memoir, Matt Young

Type

Label

Eat the apple, a memoir, Matt Young

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Eat the apple

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1017734976

Responsibility statement

Matt Young

Sub title

a memoir

Summary

-- With its kaleidoscopic array of literary forms, from interior dialogues to infographics to prose passages that read like poetry, Young's narrative powerfully mirrors the multifaceted nature of his experience. Visceral, ironic, self-lacerating, and ultimately redemptive, Young's story drops us unarmed into Marine Corps culture and lays bare the absurdism of 21st-century war, the manned-up vulnerability of those on the front lines, and the true, if often misguided, motivations that drove a young man to a life at war. Searing in its honesty, tender in its vulnerability, and brilliantly written, Eat the Apple is a modern war classic in the making and a powerful coming-of-age story that maps the insane geography of our times

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