Book description
For the first time the complete works of the award-winning author
Elizabeth Gilbert are collected together, highlighting her talents as
a writer of both fiction and non-fiction. In the international
best-seller Eat, Pray, Love, Gilbert narrates her struggles
after a bitter divorce and turbulent love affair, beginning her quest
to rediscover how to be happy. In Rome, she indulges herself and gains
nearly two stone. In India, she finds enlightenment through scrubbing
temple floors. Finally, in Bali a toothless medicine man reveals a new
path to peace, leaving her ready to find love again. In
Committed, Gilbert is about to wed the man she fell in love
with at the end of Eat, Pray, Love and with wit and
intelligence contemplates marriage, trying with all her might to
discover what this stubbornly enduring old institution actually is.
In The Last American Man, Gilbert presents a fascinating,
intimate portrait of the American naturalist and brilliant modern hero
Eustace Conway, who at the age of seventeen ditched the comforts of
his suburban existence to escape into the wild. Attempting to instil
in people a deeper appreciation of nature, Conway stops at nothing in
pursuit of bigger, bolder adventures. In Gilbert's first novel
Stern Men, the eighteen-year-old irredeemably unromantic Ruth
Thomas returns home from boarding school determined to join the Â
stern-men'. Throwing her education overboard, this feisty and
unforgettable American heroine helps work the lobster boats and
brushes up on her profanity, eventually falling for a handsome young
lobsterman. In Pilgrims, Gilbert's sharply drawn and tenderly
observed collection of twelve short stories, tough heroes and
heroines, hardened by their experiences, struggle for their epiphanies
and seek companionship as fiercely as they can.
'Gilbert is instantly likeable as a narrator: she's warm, funny and,
as she says, can make friends with anyone, anywhere. That included her
readers who have become cult-like devotees'
Elizabeth Gilbert is
an award-winning writer of both fiction and non-fiction. Her short
story collection Pilgrims was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway
award, and her novel Stern Men was a New York Times
notable book. In 2002, she published The Last American Man,
which was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National
Book Critics Circle Award. She is best known for her 2006 memoir
Eat, Pray, Love, which was published in over thirty languages
and sold more than seven million copies worldwide. The film, released
in 2010, stars Julia Roberts and Javier Bardem. Elizabeth Gilbert
lives in New Jersey, USA.
