{"product_id":"eat-the-apple-9781632869517","title":"Eat the Apple","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e of the Iraq war\" (Tim Weiner)--a gut-wrenching, beautiful memoir of the consequences of war on the psyche of a young man. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eEat the Apple\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSearing in its honesty, tender in its vulnerability, and brilliantly written, \u003ci\u003eEat the Apple \u003c\/i\u003eis a modern war classic in the making and a powerful coming-of-age story that maps the insane geography of our times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/26\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781632869517\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.90d","brand":"Matt Young","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43132942876853,"sku":"9781632869517","price":15.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_f6241aaa-dd97-4b2d-a3f4-9d0dd3ac7cc3.jpg?v=1695136154","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/eat-the-apple-9781632869517","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}