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| Title | : | The Last American Man |
| Author | : | Elizabeth Gilbert |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 271 pages |
| Published | : | May 27th 2003 by Riverhead Books (first published May 13th 2002) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Biography. Environment. Nature. Adventure. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography Memoir. Outdoors |
Elizabeth Gilbert
Paperback | Pages: 271 pages Rating: 3.81 | 8872 Users | 1067 Reviews
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Finalist for the National Book Award 2002 Look out for Elizabeth Gilbert's new book, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, on sale now! In this rousing examination of contemporary American male identity, acclaimed author and journalist Elizabeth Gilbert explores the fascinating true story of Eustace Conway. In 1977, at the age of seventeen, Conway left his family's comfortable suburban home to move to the Appalachian Mountains. For more than two decades he has lived there, making fire with sticks, wearing skins from animals he has trapped, and trying to convince Americans to give up their materialistic lifestyles and return with him back to nature. To Gilbert, Conway's mythical character challenges all our assumptions about what it is to be a modern man in America; he is a symbol of much we feel how our men should be, but rarely are.
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| Original Title: | The Last American Man |
| ISBN: | 0142002836 (ISBN13: 9780142002834) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Appalachia(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Biography/Autobiography (2002), National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction (2002) |
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This is one of those books that stir up strong opinions and heated controversy. Eustace Conway, the back-to-nature mountain man of the title, is someone you can see as a living American myth or a nut case. The author's portrait of him, full of ironies right from the title onward, lends itself to either point of view. And depending on how the book is read, you can see either admiration or skepticism in what she says about Conway.Or you can see subject and author in all of these ways which, as II love this story.I love people who dream an intense, crystal clear dream, and then arrange their lives to see it come true.I love people who work hard.I harbor a strange and conflicted love for old-fashioned living and values, and for primitive living. Gilbert describes the conflicts I feel so acutely. The wilderness life she descries combines backwards attitudes about gender and the impracticality and seeming irrelevance of it all with sublime moments, connection with nature, and the inner
Fascinating biography of a complicated, maddening, admirable man, a man convinced he was going to change the world and help start a revolution of self-reliance and harmony with nature. With each book I read by Gilbert I am more and more impressed with her range. She gets at the heart of an inscrutable man, portrays him both sympathetically and honestly. Highly recommended.
Eustace Conway could teach us all a thing or two about how we should live on this earth. Unfortunately, all Elizabeth Gilbert wants to teach us is about his father issues and his relationships with women. There is almost no wilderness ethic to be had; the book reads like the diary of a 12-year-old girl smitten by a mountain man. It's difficult to think of Gilbert as a serious journalist when she constantly fawns over her subject and actually appears (unflatteringly) in the narrative herself. She
As a librarian, people often ask me for my book recommendations, and then I get discouraged when they stubbornly refuse to take them. The Last American Man is a book that I wish I could get more people to read. You may recognize the name Elizabeth Gilbert from her bestselling memoir Eat Pray Love. The problem with a massive success like EPL is that people seem to have pigeonholed Gilbert into only one genre, when the truth as my fellow readers already know is that good writers are artists and
Honestly, as I noted in my progress report, this book is way too much about Elizabeth Gilbert. While Eustace Conway is an interesting, unique character, Gilbert's rendition of the man, his philosophy and life story is too filled with her personal opinion and prejudices. I find it difficult to believe that this book was a National Book Award finalist. I feel as if on some level, Mr. Conway was used.
I'm fairly certain that I could not stand to be in the presence of Eustace Conway. From reading this book and watching videos of his interviews, I would think that he and I would be at odds. His values are skewed from mine and that is the most disappointing aspect of learning about such a man. He takes a fragment of my individualist, libertarian ideals and twists them into a "my way or the highway" way of spreading the propaganda of his legend. But this is not a review of Conway's substantial
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