Elizabeth Gilbert
Paperback | Pages: 271 pages Rating: 3.81 | 8872 Users | 1067 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Last American Man |
| ISBN: | 0142002836 (ISBN13: 9780142002834) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Appalachia(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Biography/Autobiography (2002), National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction (2002) |
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In this rousing examination of contemporary American male identity, acclaimed author and journalist Elizabeth Gilbert explores the fascinating true story of Eustace Conway. In 1977, at the age of seventeen, Conway left his family's comfortable suburban home to move to the Appalachian Mountains. For more than two decades he has lived there, making fire with sticks, wearing skins from animals he has trapped, and trying to convince Americans to give up their materialistic lifestyles and return with him back to nature. To Gilbert, Conway's mythical character challenges all our assumptions about what it is to be a modern man in America; he is a symbol of much we feel how our men should be, but rarely are.
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| Title | : | The Last American Man |
| Author | : | Elizabeth Gilbert |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 271 pages |
| Published | : | May 27th 2003 by Riverhead Books (first published May 13th 2002) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Biography. Environment. Nature. Adventure. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography Memoir. Outdoors |
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Ratings: 3.81 From 8872 Users | 1067 ReviewsComment On About Books The Last American Man
As a librarian, people often ask me for my book recommendations, and then I get discouraged when they stubbornly refuse to take them. The Last American Man is a book that I wish I could get more people to read. You may recognize the name Elizabeth Gilbert from her bestselling memoir Eat Pray Love. The problem with a massive success like EPL is that people seem to have pigeonholed Gilbert into only one genre, when the truth as my fellow readers already know is that good writers are artists andAfter devouring Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love, I ran to the bookstore and picked up this fascinating biography of Eustis Conway, who may or may not be the Last American Man, but he IS the last person you would want to live with or work for. He is in his own idealistic world that shuts out others and has no tolerance for varying levels of compentence or preferences that differ from his. Gilbert attempts to show why Conway is who he is, and the reader does develop empathy for this lost,
Written by Elizabeth Gilbert, before her hit Eat, Pray, Love, this compelling story of Eustace Conway is one I won't soon forget. I'm surprised it isn't more well-known considering the popularity of Gilbert and the similar storyline to the outdoor tale of Into The Wild. This story doesn't have a tragic ending like Into The Wild, but there are many parallels in the early lives of Christopher McCandless and Eustace Conway.Gilbert writes an endearing, witty, humorous, heartfelt, and detailed
I was in a bad mood, wanting to leave for a transcontinental trip and settling somewhere on the Himalayas, then I checked this book and it saved my day. Definitely my favorite. I always love Elizabeth Gilbert's writing, and I'm fascinated by Eustace Conway's lifestyle. Ingenious and intelligent, adventurous and ambitious, living simply and close to nature, he leads a dream life that we all want but scared to follow. I also feel a deep empathy with his characters and ideas of life, strict to
I'm fairly certain that I could not stand to be in the presence of Eustace Conway. From reading this book and watching videos of his interviews, I would think that he and I would be at odds. His values are skewed from mine and that is the most disappointing aspect of learning about such a man. He takes a fragment of my individualist, libertarian ideals and twists them into a "my way or the highway" way of spreading the propaganda of his legend. But this is not a review of Conway's substantial
As a librarian, people often ask me for my book recommendations, and then I get discouraged when they stubbornly refuse to take them. The Last American Man is a book that I wish I could get more people to read. You may recognize the name Elizabeth Gilbert from her bestselling memoir Eat Pray Love. The problem with a massive success like EPL is that people seem to have pigeonholed Gilbert into only one genre, when the truth as my fellow readers already know is that good writers are artists and
I knew of Eustace Conway before reading this and that was the only reason I read it because I didn't like Eat, Pray, Love. I think this would have been a more successful book about "the last american man" had it been written by Jon Krakauer. Gilbert annoyed me yet again and this book is not really about living a life more like Eustace Conway, it is a book psychoanalyzing his personality, relationship and family issues. Which gets really old, really quick. She tries to argue that Americans are
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