Available:*
Library | Call Number | Material Type | Shelf Location | Item Barcode | Status |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Searching... CLEVELAND/Langston Hughes Branch | G154.5.G55 A3 2010 | Book | Adult | 0009216368499 | Searching... Unknown |
Searching... CLEVELAND/Martin Luther King Branch | G154.5.G55 A3 2010 | Book | Adult | 0009215152811 | Searching... Unknown |
Searching... ELYRIA/South Branch | B GILBERT | Book | Nonfiction | 0000710218736 | Searching... Unknown |
Searching... ELYRIA/West River Branch | B GILBERT | Book | Nonfiction | 0000710638529 | Searching... Unknown |
Searching... GEAUGA/Chardon | 921 GILBE | Book | Nonfiction | 33235024571336 | Searching... Unknown |
Searching... GEAUGA/Geauga West | 921 GILBE | Book | Nonfiction | 33235023181509 | Searching... Unknown |
Searching... MEDINA/Brunswick Branch | 910.4 GIL | Book | Adult | 0001218727376 | Searching... Unknown |
Searching... MEDINA/Buckeye Branch | 910.4 GIL | Book | Adult | 0001218727350 | Searching... Unknown |
Searching... MEDINA/Medina Library | 910.4 GIL | Paperback | Adult | 0001212818072 | Searching... Unknown |
Searching... MEDINA/Medina Library | 910.4 GIL | Book | Adult | 0001218727368 | Searching... Unknown |
Searching... SANDUSKY/Main Library | [BOOK CLUB] 910.4 GI | Book | Adult | 0000908311269 | Searching... Unknown |
Searching... SANDUSKY/Main Library | [BOOK CLUB] 910.4 GI | Book | Adult | 0000908312101 | Searching... Unknown |
Searching... SANDUSKY/Main Library | [BOOK CLUB] 910.4 GI | Book | Adult | 0000908312192 | Searching... Unknown |
Searching... SANDUSKY/Main Library | [BOOK CLUB] 910.4 GI | Book | Adult | 0000908320195 | Searching... Unknown |
Searching... SANDUSKY/Main Library | [BOOK CLUB] 910.4 GI | Book | Adult | 0000908328917 | Searching... Unknown |
Searching... TWINSBURG/Main Library | 910.4 GIL | Book | Adult | 0001405823780 | Searching... Unknown |
Searching... TWINSBURG/Main Library | 910.4 GIL | Book | Adult | 0001405823764 | Searching... Unknown |
Searching... WICKLIFFE/Main Library | 910.4 GIL | Paperback | Nonfiction | 0002204393967 | Searching... Unknown |
Bound With These Titles
On Order
Summary
Summary
A transformational journey through Italy, India, and Bali searching for pleasure and devotion--the massive bestseller from the author of Big Magic and City of Girls.
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.
Author Notes
Elizabeth Gilbert was born in Waterbury, Connecticut on July 18, 1969. She received an undergraduate degree in political science from New York University. After college, she spent several years traveling around the country, working odd jobs and writing short stories. Early in her career, she also worked as a journalist for such publications as Spin, GQ and The New York Times Magazine. An article she wrote in GQ about her experiences bartending on the Lower East Side eventually became the basis for the movie Coyote Ugly.
She writes both fiction and nonfiction and her books include the short story collection Pilgrims, Stern Men, The Last American Man, Committed, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, and The Signature of All Things. Her memoir Eat, Pray, Love, was adapted into a movie starring Julia Roberts. She will be featured at the Sydney Writers Festival in March 2016.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (4)
Publisher's Weekly 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. (On sale Feb. 20) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Booklist Review
Gilbert, author of The Last American Man (2002) and a well-traveled I'll-try-anything-once journalist, chronicles her intrepid quest for spiritual healing. Driven to despair by a punishing divorce and an anguished love affair, Gilbert flees New York for sojourns in the three Is. She goes to Italy to learn the language and revel in the cuisine, India to meditate in an ashram, and Indonesia to reconnect with a healer in Bali. This itinerary may sound self-indulgent or fey, but there is never a whiny or pious or dull moment because Gilbert is irreverent, hilarious, zestful, courageous, intelligent, and in masterful command of her sparkling prose. A captivating storyteller with a gift for enlivening metaphors, Gilbert is Anne Lamott's hip, yoga-practicing, footloose younger sister, and readers will laugh and cry as she recounts her nervy and outlandish experiences and profiles the extraordinary people she meets. As Gilbert switches from gelato to kundalini Shakti to herbal cures Balinese-style, she ponders the many paths to divinity, the true nature of happiness, and the boon of good-hearted, sexy love. Gilbert's sensuous and audacious spiritual odyssey is as deeply pleasurable as it is enlightening. --Donna Seaman Copyright 2006 Booklist
Kirkus Review
An unsuccessful attempt at a memoir from novelist and journalist Gilbert (The Last American Man, 2002, etc.). While weeping one night on the bathroom floor because her marriage was falling apart, the author had a profound spiritual experience, crying out to and hearing an answer of sorts from God. Eventually, Gilbert left her husband, threw herself headlong into an intense affair, then lapsed into as intense a depression when the affair ended. After all that drama, we get to the heart of this book, a year of travel during which the author was determined to discover peace and pleasure. In Rome, she practiced Italian and ate scrumptious food. Realizing that she needed to work on her "boundary issues," she determined to forego the pleasure of sex with Italian men. In India, she studied at the ashram of her spiritual guru (to whom she had been introduced by the ex-lover), practiced yoga and learned that in addition to those pesky difficulties with boundaries, she also had "control issues." Finally she headed to Bali, where she became the disciple of a medicine man, befriended a single mother and fell in love with another expat. Quirky supporting characters pop up here and there, speaking a combination of wisdom and cliché. At the ashram, for example, she meets a Texan who offers such improbable aphorisms as, "You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be." Gilbert's divorce and subsequent depression, which she summarizes in about 35 pages, are in fact more interesting than her year of travel. The author's writing is prosaic, sometimes embarrassingly so: "I'm putting this happiness in a bank somewhere, not merely FDIC protected but guarded by my four spirit brothers." Lacks the sparkle of her fiction. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Library Journal Review
Gilbert, a triple-threat author of short stories and novels as well as nonfiction-The Last American Man was an NBA and an NBCC finalist-here reflects on the "early-onslaught midlife crisis" that brought her to a halt at age 30. With an 11-city tour. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.