The Bite in the Apple: A Memoir of My Life with Steve Jobs
An intimate look at the life of Steve Jobs by the mother of his first child providing rare insight into Jobs's formative, lesser-known years.

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 reader with a human dimension to Jobs' myth. Finally, a book that reveals a more real Steve Jobs.

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The Bite in the Apple: A Memoir of My Life with Steve Jobs
An intimate look at the life of Steve Jobs by the mother of his first child providing rare insight into Jobs's formative, lesser-known years.

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 reader with a human dimension to Jobs' myth. Finally, a book that reveals a more real Steve Jobs.

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

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

by Chrisann Brennan
The Bite in the Apple: A Memoir of My Life with Steve Jobs

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

by Chrisann Brennan

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Overview

An intimate look at the life of Steve Jobs by the mother of his first child providing rare insight into Jobs's formative, lesser-known years.

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 reader with a human dimension to Jobs' myth. Finally, a book that reveals a more real Steve Jobs.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781250056528
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/04/2014
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 336
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

CHRISANN BRENNAN is a painter living in the San Francisco Bay area. She is the author of The Bite in the Apple: A Memoir of My Life with Steve Jobs.

Table of Contents

Note to the Reader ix

1 The Creatives 1

2 An Absolute Authority 11

3 Experimental Flowering in Full Tilt Boogie 19

4 The Imposter 30

5 Crosscurrents 38

6 Eden 46

7 The Handbook of Becoming 57

8 Walkabout 73

9 All One Farm 88

10 The Practical and the Poetic 101

11 The Guardian at the Gate 116

12 Pure Function 131

13 Life on Two Levels 144

14 Snakes and Ladders 155

15 The World of Men 166

16 An Old Story 178

17 Perfection 194

18 The Reality Distortion Field 212

19 Dark Times, Bright Moments 225

20 Machine of the Year 238

21 Family Ties 245

22 Traction 258

23 The Path of the Hearth 276

24 The Watchtower 285

Postscript 294

Acknowledgments 299

Index 301

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