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Like many others, around the time Elizabeth Gilbert turned 30, she went through an early-onslaught midlife crisis. Although she had everything an educated, ambitious American woman was supposed to want, including a husband, a home, and a successful career as a magazine writer, she was consumed with panic, grief, and confusion. This is an account of her yearlong worldwide pursuit of pleasure, spiritual devotion, guidance, and what she really wanted out of life.
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Travel, Travel writers, Biography, Viaje, Description and travel, Biografía, Autoras estadounidenses, Viajes, Religious aspects, Biografía espiritual, Escritores de viajes, Religious aspects of Self-realization, Self-realization, Self-realization in women, Mujeres estadounidenses, Spiritual biography, Autores estadounidenses, Accessible book, Protected DAISY, OverDrive, Biography & Autobiography, Nonfiction, New York Times bestseller, nyt:paperback_nonfiction=2007-02-04People
Elizabeth Gilbert (1969-)Places
United States, Italy, Indonesia, India, Estados UnidosShowing 9 featured editions. View all 24 editions?
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Previously published: New York : Viking Penguin, 2006.
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This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of modern American success (marriage, house in the country, career) and find, instead, what she truly wanted from life. Setting out for a year to study three different aspects of her nature amid three different cultures, Gilbert explored the art of pleasure in Italy and the art of devotion in India, and then a balance between the two on the Indonesian island of Bali. By turns rapturous and rueful, this wise and funny author (whom Booklist calls "Anne Lamott's hip, yoga- practicing, footloose younger sister") is poised to garner yet more adoring fans.
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