Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia (Unabridged)
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
A transformational journey through Italy, India, and Bali searching for pleasure and devotion—the massive bestseller from the author of The Signature of All Things
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.
Customer Reviews
My absolute favorite
I have read this book several times, listened to the audio book and watched the movie more than once as well. Well, I’m a fan of it you can say.
What a great book - funny, romantic, tragic, sad, deep - just a book that can be a great teacher when you listen closely. The author did a fantastic job reading her book and brings the story alive. I met E. G. once at a three day event. A fascinating women who does take life by the horns.
Poorly mimicked accents
I would give this book 4 stars, it’s an interesting travel memoir and had a few thought provoking stories. It was rather surface-level in the way she described the history and culture of Italy, India and Bali. And the spiritualism/religion aspects were also surface-level.
I’m taking off an extra star because, as the author narrates her story, she attempts to mimic the ethnic accents of the people she met whenever she quotes them. At certain points her fake Indian and fake Balinese accents just come across as embarrassing and borderline offensive. It would’ve been better for her to use her white middle-American accent even as she quoted others.
Magical:)
I love so much!