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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780670034710 |
Powells.com Staff Pick
Not long after her thirtieth birthday, on the heels of an ugly divorce, Elizabeth Gilbert traveled for a year, to Italy, India, and finally Indonesia. In Italy she wanted to explore the art of pleasure (pasta, wine, handsome men speaking a beautiful language); in India, devotion (waking at 4:15 a.m. to scrub the Ashram floor); and, the last four months she spent in Bali, trying to balance the two.
"The only thing wrong with this readable, funny memoir," one reviewer griped, "is that it seems so much like a Jennifer Aniston movie." Leave it to Hollywood, I guess, but Aniston isn't right for the part. Not earthy enough, too stiff. The traumatized, midnight weeping of Eat, Pray, Love's early pages might suit her, but could Aniston put on twenty-three pounds in four months — on camera — with a smile? And understand what she's smiling about? Since when do we blame authors for potentially misguided casting assignments, anyway? Here's the book that will finally put this critically acclaimed author on bestseller lists. Eat, Pray, Love — enjoy.
Recommended by Dave, Powells.com
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Around the time Elizabeth Gilbert turned thirty, she went through an early-onslaught midlife crisis. She had everything an educated, ambitious American woman was supposed to want — a husband, a house, a successful career. But instead of feeling happy and fulfilled, she was consumed with panic, grief, and confusion. She went through a divorce, a crushing depression, another failed love, and the eradication of everything she ever thought she was supposed to be.
To recover from all this, Gilbert took a radical step. In order to give herself the time and space to find out who she really was and what she really wanted, she got rid of her belongings, quit her job, and undertook a yearlong journey around the world — all alone. Eat, Pray, Love is the absorbing chronicle of that year. Her aim was to visit three places where she could examine one aspect of her own nature set against the backdrop of a culture that has traditionally done that one thing very well. In Rome, she studied the art of pleasure, learning to speak Italian and gaining the twenty-three happiest pounds of her life. India was for the art of devotion, and with the help of a native guru and a surprisingly wise cowboy from Texas, she embarked on four uninterrupted months of spiritual exploration. In Bali, she studied the art of balance between worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. She became the pupil of an elderly medicine man and also fell in love the best way — unexpectedly.
An intensely articulate and moving memoir of self-discovery, Eat, Pray, Love is about what can happen when you claim responsibility for your own contentment and stop trying to live in imitation of society's ideals. It is certain to touch anyone who has ever woken up to the unrelenting need for change.
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Like Jen, Liz is a plucky blond American woman in her thirties with no children and no major money worries. As the book opens, she is going through a really bad divorce and subsequent stormy..." Washington Post Book Review (read the entire Washington Post review)
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AES, December 5, 2007 (view all comments by AES)
Saw your interview with Oprah and it really made me want to read this book. Eat Pray and Love
I feel that this is something that i need to do, as I am going though some of these emotions especially after a marriage of 26yrs. and now living day to day paycheck to paycheck, I just don't know which way to turn.
After watching Oprah show I felt like this is a book I need to read. Everyone that has read it on the show had great reviews and I felt maybe this is for me.
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a.huwaydi, November 17, 2007 (view all comments by a.huwaydi)
As a writer Elizabith Gilbert is not only witty and funny, but also highly captivating and well informed. However, her greatest trait as a writer is her all embracing truthfullness which enabled her to reflect her deepest thoughts and emotions in a very clear and touchy manner. In that regard she has imensly helped me in having a better understanding of my own. I simply loved the way she wrote.
Although she does'nt like to admit it, she is a wonderful travel guide. Now, and because of her book, I want to go to Italy and walk all over the place and maybe gain twenty bounds without any regrets.
As a seeker of "Truth", I must say that she came too short. Yoga and ancient wisdom have alot to offer but they don't have all the ansewrs. I hope she continues her search in other places and with other people of this big world of ours and come back to tell us about it.
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PeaceBang, March 27, 2007 (view all comments by PeaceBang)
I re-titled this book, "How I Reaffirmed My Addiction To Male Attention and Affirmation Across Two Continents and Three Countries!"
Gilbert is an engaging enough writer, but all the charm in the world can't mask the essential emptiness of this memoir, in which every single character exists for one purpose only: to help propel the monumentally self-absorbed Gilbert to her privileged American version of Enlightenment.
The dialogue is inauthentic and precious, and the writing degenerates badly by the third chapter, which also features Gilbert and her Brazilian boyfriend dishing the Balinese from their all-wise, Western perspective and shows how unsparingly Gilbert will turn her journalistic lens on those she claims as her "friends."
A book that began with great promise and ended in embarrassing vapidity.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780670034710
- Subtitle:
- One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
- Author:
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Viking Books
- Subject:
- Women
- Subject:
- United states
- Subject:
- Travelers
- Subject:
- Personal Memoirs
- Subject:
- Travel writers
- Copyright:
- 2006
- Publication Date:
- February 16, 2006
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 334
- Dimensions:
- 9.29x6.35x1.13 in. 1.16 lbs.
- Notes:
ti: EVERYTHING ACROSS ITALY, INDIA AND INDONESIA
