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Young, Matt, 1986-

Eat the apple : a memoir / Matt Young. - 251 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

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.

ISBN: 9781632869500 1632869500

LCCN: 2017011843

Subjects--Personal Names:
Young, Matt, 1986-

Subjects--Corporate Names:
United States. Marine Corps --Military life.
United States. Marine Corps --Biography.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Iraq War, 2003-2011--Personal narratives, American.
Marines--United States--Biography.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
California, Southern--Biography.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Personal narratives.