Eat the apple : a memoir

Resource Information

The work Eat the apple : a memoir represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Calgary Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Eat the apple : a memoir

Title remainder

a memoir

Statement of responsibility

Matt Young

Creator

• Young, Matt, 1986-

Author

• Young, Matt, 1986-

Subject

• California, Southern -- Biography
• Electronic books
• Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Personal narratives, American
• Marines -- United States -- Biography
• Memoirs
• Biography & Autobiography -- Military
• United States, Marine Corps -- Military life
• Young, Matt, 1986-
• United States, Marine Corps -- Biography
• Biography & Autobiography -- Personal Memoirs

Genre

• Personal narratives, American
• Electronic books
• Biography

Language

eng

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

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

MMI

Dewey number

956.7044/345092

Index

no index present

LC call number

DS79.76

LC item number

.Y675 2017eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries