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Eat, Pray, Love. One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India, Indonesia | 
 enlarge | Author: Gilbert Elizabeth
Publisher: Viking
Category: Book
Buy New: $31.72
Sales Rank: 121395
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 352
ASIN: B001GIQNJM
Publication Date: 2006
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Condition: new hardcover in dustjacket,ships same or next business day with delivery confirmation
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From Publishers Weekly: Starred Review. Gilbert (The Last American Man) grafts the structure of romantic fiction upon the inquiries of reporting in this sprawling yet methodical travelogue of soul-searching and self-discovery. Plagued with despair after a nasty divorce, the author, in her early 30s, divides a year equally among three dissimilar countries, exploring her competing urges for earthly delights and divine transcendence. First, pleasure: savoring Italy's buffet of delights - the world's best pizza, free-flowing wine and dashing conversation partners - Gilbert consumes la dolce vita as spiritual succor. "I came to Italy pinched and thin," she writes, but soon fills out in waist and soul. Then, prayer and ascetic rigor: seeking communion with the divine at a sacred ashram in India, Gilbert emulates the ways of yogis in grueling hours of meditation, struggling to still her churning mind. Finally, a balancing act in Bali, where Gilbert tries for equipoise "betwixt and between" realms, studies with a merry medicine man and plunges into a charged love affair. Sustaining a chatty, conspiratorial tone, Gilbert fully engages readers in the year's cultural and emotional tapestry - conveying rapture with infectious brio, recalling anguish with touching candor - as she details her exotic tableau with history, anecdote and impression. Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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