Short description
Elizabeth Gilbert is in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, and they're trying for a baby - she doesn't want any of it. A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she emerges battered and bewildered and realises it is time to pursue her own journey in search of three things she has been missing: pleasure, devotion and balance.
Long description
It's 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby - and she doesn't want any of it. A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she emerges battered and bewildered and realises it is time to pursue her own journey in search of three things she has been missing: pleasure, devotion and balance. So she travels to Rome, where she learns Italian from handsome, brown-eyed identical twins and gains twenty-five pounds, an ashram in India, where she finds that enlightenment entails getting up in the middle of the night to scrub the temple floor, and Bali where a toothless medicine man of indeterminate age offers her a new path to peace: simply sit still and smile. And slowly happiness begins to creep up on her.
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'It's what I'm giving all my girl friends' Julia Roberts 'Every woman should read it' Elle Macpherson 'I adore it' Sophie Dahl 'I loved it ... I could understand her wanting to write the book and her desire to heal' Meg Ryan
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Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of a short story collection, Pilgrims (a finalist for the Pen/Hemmingway Award), a novel, Stern Men and a book of non fiction, The Last American Man (nominated for the National Book Award and a New York Times Notable Book for 2002). She is a writer-at-large for American GQ where she has received two National Magazine Award nominations for feature writing. Elizabeth Gilbert lives in Philadelphia.
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Puerile self-indulgence
Reviewed by Stephanie Cawood from Bloemfontein, South Africa on 05 November 2010
308 of 658 people found the following review helpful:
Far from being a quest for spiritual self-discovery, this narrative is self-indulgent to the point of narcissism. The prose is pedantic, the plot superficial, while characterisation is one-dimensional at best. I would not recommend this drivel to any serious lover of the written word.
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Wonderful!
Reviewed by Lorinda from Margate on 16 November 2009
822 of 1691 people found the following review helpful:
Well written, amusing, thought pro@#$ing! What a wonderful journey that is unassumingly presented and makes one yearn to take the leap and explore the unexplored areas of life and mind! A book that stays with you long after you've finished it, and one you want to keep on your bookshelf for ever!
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