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Eat the apple : a memoir /

Matt Young joined the Marine Corps at age eighteen. 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. Visceral, ironic, self-lacerating, and ultimately redemptive, Yo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Young, Matt, 1986- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Bloomsbury USA, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018.
Subjects:
Young, Matt, > 1986-
United States. > Marine Corps > Military life.
United States. > Marine Corps > Biography.
United States. > Marine Corps.
Iraq War (2003-2011)
Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Personal narratives, American.
Marines > United States > Biography.
California, Southern > Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Military.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Personal Memoirs.
Armed Forces > Military life.
Marines.
California, Southern.
Iraq.
United States.
2003-2011
Biography.
Personal narratives.
Personal narratives > American.
Autobiographies.
Personal Narrative.
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Summary:Matt Young joined the Marine Corps at age eighteen. 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. 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.
Physical Description:251 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
ISBN:9781632869500
1632869500