ﾟﾓﾚ The Last American Man
Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Publication Date: 3 August 2009 (Bloomsbury UK paperback edition); First published 2002
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London
Format: B-format paperback (198 x 129 mm / 7.8 x 5.1 inches)
ISBN: 978-1-4088-0116-1 / 1-4088-0116-7
Pages: 288
Weight: 235 grams
Condition: Fair to Good. Some age tanning, light wear with minor cover creasing, edge wear, pages showing slight browning commensurate with reading
ﾟﾔﾍ Synopsis
Finalist for the National Book Award 2002 and National Book Critics Circle Award. Before Eat, Pray, Love made her a household name, Elizabeth Gilbert wrote this riveting examination of contemporary American male identity through the true story of Eustace Conway. At age seventeen in 1977, Conway ditched suburban comfort to live alone in an Appalachian Mountains teepee. Everything he needed he built, grew, or killed￢ﾀﾔmaking clothes from deer he killed and skinned, using sinew as sewing thread. But he didn't stop there. He traveled the Mississippi in a handmade wooden canoe, walked the 2,000-mile Appalachian Trail, hiked across German Alps in trainers, scaled New Zealand cliffs. One Christmas, he finished dinner with family and promptly left￢ﾀﾔto ride his horse across America in 103 days, setting a world record. Now residing in a thousand-acre North Carolina forest teaching survival skills, Conway embodies what Gilbert sees as America's lost masculine ideal￢ﾀﾔself-reliance, physical courage, connection to wilderness. Yet his story reveals contradictions: visionary and narcissist, modern hero and flawed man unable to reconcile ambitious dreams with modernity's sobering realities. This unforgettable adventure examines what it means to be a man when frontier has vanished.
ﾟﾒﾬ Reviews
It is almost impossible not to fall under the spell of Eustace Conway... his accomplishments, his joy and vigor, seem almost miraculous. ￢ﾀﾓ New York Times Review of Books
Gilbert takes a bright-eyed bead on Eustace, hitting him square with a witty modernist appraisal of folkloric American masculinity. ￢ﾀﾓ The Times; Conversational, enthusiastic, funny and sharp, the energy never ebbs. ￢ﾀﾓ New Statesman; 3.92/5 stars (over 88,000 Goodreads ratings)
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Condition: Good
