02847cam a2200325 4500 523041151 TxAuBib 20210904120000.0 ||||||s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781632869524 1632869527 B076HD1N3R Amazon 0c5a5b26-da5e-4d30-afea-27b0a38f74ba OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3742830 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Young, Matt. Eat the Apple [Libby eBook]. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 7407kB. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 9MB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p><b>"The <i>Iliad</i> of the Iraq war" (Tim Weiner)—a gut-wrenching, beautiful memoir of the consequences of war on the psyche of a young man.</b><br /> <b><br /></b><i>Eat the Apple</i> is a daring, twisted, and darkly hilarious story of American youth and masculinity in an age of continuous war. Matt Young joined the Marine Corps at age eighteen after a drunken night culminating in wrapping his car around a fire hydrant. The teenage wasteland he fled followed him to the training bases charged with making him a Marine. Matt survived the training and then not one, not two, but three deployments to Iraq, where the testosterone, danger, and stakes for him and his fellow grunts were dialed up a dozen decibels.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> Searing in its honesty, tender in its vulnerability, and brilliantly written, <i>Eat the Apple</i> is a modern war classic in the making and a powerful coming-of-age story that maps the insane geography of our times.</p>. Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. Military. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:41:34. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=0c5a5b26-da5e-4d30-afea-27b0a38f74ba&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=0c5a5b26-da5e-4d30-afea-27b0a38f74ba&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=0c5a5b26-da5e-4d30-afea-27b0a38f74ba&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)