The Bite in the Apple: A Memoir of My Life With Steve Jobs

by Chrisann Brennan Narrated by Coleen Marlo

Overview

Steve Jobs was a remarkable man who wanted to unify the world through technology. For him, the point was to set people free with tools to explore their own unique creativity. Chrisann Brennan knows this better than anyone. She met him in high school, at a time when Jobs was passionately aware that there was something much bigger to be had out of life, and that new kinds of revelations were within reach.



The Bite in the Apple is the very human tale of Jobs's ascent and the toll it took, told from the author's unique perspective as his first girlfriend, co-parent, friend, and-like many others-object of his cruelty. Brennan writes with depth and breadth, and she doesn't buy into all the hype. She talks with passion about an idealistic young man who was driven to change the world, about a young father who denied his own child, and about a man who mistook power for love. Chrisann Brennan's intimate memoir provides the listener with a human dimension to Jobs's myth. Finally, a book that reveals a more real Steve Jobs.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

"Brennan's memoir . . . provides new insight on the heavily scrutinized Apple cofounder. . . . Coleen Marlo delivers a fine performance, skillfully communicating with her tone Brennan's idealism, resilience, and curiosity." ---Library Journal Audio Review

From the Publisher - AUDIO COMMENTARY

"Brennan's memoir . . . provides new insight on the heavily scrutinized Apple cofounder. . . . Coleen Marlo delivers a fine performance, skillfully communicating with her tone Brennan's idealism, resilience, and curiosity." —Library Journal Audio Review

Library Journal - Audio

02/01/2014
Brennan and Steve Jobs met in high school and began a tumultuous on-again, off-again romantic relationship that ended permanently when Brennan discovered she was pregnant with Jobs's first child, Lisa. Jobs initially denied paternity, but the former couple managed to reconcile before Jobs's death in 2011. Brennan's memoir delves into the early experiences and private moments the author shared with Jobs and, in so doing, provides new insight on the heavily scrutinized Apple cofounder. Although Brennan is never vindictive, Jobs is not portrayed in a flattering light. Jobs fanatics may grow restless during passages documenting Brennan's own coming of age and experimentations with Eastern philosophy apart from her famous boyfriend. Coleen Marlo delivers a fine performance, skillfully communicating with her tone Brennan's idealism, resilience, and curiosity. VERDICT Certain to be a popular title given the high interest in everything Jobs.—Julie Judkins, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor

MARCH 2014 - AudioFile

The high school friend and, later, lover of Apple’s founder, Steve Jobs, as well as the mother of his first child, offers a weak and tepid memoir. Narrator Coleen Marlo’s empathetic tone and smooth pace cannot save this whiny examination of Brennan’s and Jobs’s complex relationship. Sadly, little insight is provided into either of the protagonists’ personalities, emotions, values, or motivations. Stories of Jobs’s purported cruelty pervade all, with special emphasis reserved for his initial denial of paternity of his daughter with Brennan. Despite Marlo’s precise performance, this is a dull listen, but it may appeal to those who wish to revisit the tail end of the 1970s Love Generation through a haze of LSD-laced experiences. W.A.G. © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940170442461
Publisher:	Tantor Audio
Publication date:	10/29/2013
Edition description:	Unabridged

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