Eat the Apple
by Matt Young
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Pub Date 22 Feb 2018 | Archive Date 26 Apr 2018
Description
A
gut-wrenching, beautiful memoir which explores toxic masculinity and the
devastating consequences of war on one impressionable young soldier
Matt Young joined the Marine
Corps aged eighteen, after a drunken night that culminated in him crashing his
car into a fire hydrant. The teenage wasteland he fled followed him to the
training bases of California. Young survived training and then three deployments
to Iraq as an infantryman.
Eat the Apple is the searing and honest
response to those years. Visceral, ironic, self-lacerating and ultimately
redemptive, Young’s story drops us unarmed into Marine Corps culture and lays
bare the vulnerability of those on the front lines and the true, if often
misguided, motivations that drove a young man to a life at war.
Tender and brilliantly
written, Eat the Apple is a powerful coming-of-age
story that explores toxic masculinity and maps the insane geography of our
times.
Advance Praise
'The Iliad of the Iraq war' - Tim Weiner, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award
'Uncompromising. Page after page slices close to the bone with both stylistic and structural swagger '- Elliot Ackerman, author of Green on Blue
'By turns hilarious and wrenching – and shot through with moments of piercing wisdom – Eat the Apple casts a kind of hypnotic spell that holds the reader until the last page ... Read this book' - Scott Anderson, author of Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East
'A standout ... Fresh, invigorating, and brutally honest in a scorched-earth kind of way. Eat the Apple scrapes the landscape of memory raw until it bleeds, and that’s what puts it head and shoulders above the rest of the crowd' - David Abrams, author of Fobbit
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781408888285 |
| PRICE | £14.99 (GBP) |
