num_pages: 290
description: An ambitious and powerful story about idealism, passion, and sacrifice, Eat the Document  shifts between the underground movement of the 1970s and the echoes and consequences of that movement in the 1990s. A National Book Award finalist, Eat the Document is a riveting portrait of two eras and one of the most provocative and compelling novels of recent years.
language: English
title: Eat the Document
titlecomplete: Eat the Document
genres: American, Politics, Historical Fiction, 21st Century, Literary Fiction, Novels, Adult Fiction, Adult, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 2765
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Rosenthal Family Foundation Award, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Scribner