Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of a short story collection, Pilgrims-a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and winner of the 1999 John C. Zacharis First Book Award from Ploughshares-and a novel, Stern Men. A Pushcart Prize winner and National Magazine Award-nominated journalist, she works as writer-at-large for GQ. Her journalism has been published in Harper's Bazaar, Spin, and The New York Times Magazine, and her stories have appeared in Esquire, Story, and the Paris Review.
Biography
While Elizabeth Gilbert's roots are in journalism -- she's a Pushcart Prize-winning and National Magazine Award-nominated writer -- it's her books that have granted her even more attention.
Gilbert departed from reporting in 1997, with the publication of her first collection of short fiction, Pilgrims. A finalist for the 1998 PEN/Hemingway Award, Pilgrims was also selected as a New York Times Notable Book, was listed as one of the "Most Intriguing Books of 1997" by Glamour magazine, and went on to win best first fiction awards from The Paris Review, The Southern Review, and Ploughshares.
Since then, Gilbert has successfully alternated between fiction and nonfiction -- a high-wire act that has paid off in a string of critically acclaimed bestsellers that includes her first full-length novel, Stern Men (2000); The Last American Man (2002), a National Book Award for Nonfiction; and Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia (2006), a celebrated spiritual memoir that landed on several year-end Best Books lists.
A celebrated writers irresistible, candid, and eloquent account of her pursuit of worldly pleasure, spiritual devotion, and what she really wanted out of life
Around the time Elizabeth Gilbert turned thirty, she went through an early-onslaught midlife crisis. She had everything an educated, ambitious American woman was supposed to wanta husband, a house, a successful career. But instead of feeling happy and fulfilled, she was consumed with panic, grief, and confusion. She went through a divorce, a crushing depression, another failed love, and the eradication of everything she ever thought she was supposed to be.
To recover from all this, Gilbert took a radical step. In order to give herself the time and space to find out who she really was and what she really wanted, she got rid of her belongings, quit her job, and undertook a yearlong journey around the worldall alone. Eat, Pray, Love is the absorbing chronicle of that year. Her aim was to visit three places where she could examine one aspect of her own nature set against the backdrop of a culture that has traditionally done that one thing very well. In Rome, she studied the art of pleasure, learning to speak Italian and gaining the twenty-three happiest pounds of her life. India was for the art of devotion, and with the help of a native guru and a surprisingly wise cowboy from Texas, she embarked on four uninterrupted months of spiritual exploration. In Bali, she studied the art of balance between worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. She became the pupil of an elderly medicine man and also fell in love the best wayunexpectedly.
An intensely articulate and moving memoir of self-discovery, Eat, Pray, Love is about what can happen when you claim responsibility for your own contentment and stop trying to live in imitation of societys ideals. It is certain to touch anyone who has ever woken up to the unrelenting need for change.
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年紀大到一定程度,就會對人力産生極端無助的感覺。事實上作為個人命運,這完全不是主觀、客觀、先天際遇或個人努力能夠達成的順理成章,也不是有付齣就一定有收獲。您在這邊廂“鞠躬敬瘁死而後已”,人傢那邊廂已經“談笑間檣櫓灰飛煙滅”,到最後怎麼不可能産生對命運的敬畏...
評分當內心真的被觸動,每個人都會有強烈的反應,對我來說是一種全身發麻,有一簇顫抖遍布於皮膚下。在聽到斯美塔那的《伏爾塔瓦河》的主題樂麯時,在聽到拉二的高潮部分時,在讀到這本書最後的Attraversiamo的時候,明顯感覺到從心底直湧上眼眶的那股想要流淚的衝動。 去年十月看...
評分放下:當你一覺醒來,感覺不再有熱情,不再有熱度,不再有火花,不再有信仰,那麼,勇敢地齣發吧。 靜默:不要用眼睛看世界,用心去看,你會更接近心中的神明。 平衡:去愛、去相信,追尋內心的答案,當雙腳再次觸碰到大地,你會走得真實而堅定。
評分這是一個問題。 按照魯迅先生的說法,女人身上的女兒性和母性是天性,妻性是逼齣來的。 原書名倒是頗為直白,吃,祈禱,愛,象什麼?難道不象嚼著薯片躺在沙發上和男友看電視的小女孩嗎? 女人要是不做一個真正意義上的妻子,那就隻有迴歸自然的天性,要麼做女孩,要麼做母親。...
評分還沒看完,是被她開頭的無助描寫吸引的。同事看見書上的一句話“不想結婚”,而把本書界定為會教壞我的書,有些冤枉瞭
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“I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.”
評分實話說中間有些絮絮叨叨令人無法忍受。我當時在想為什麼要繼續這個女人的故事,不過也許她讓我看到她勇敢的一麵吧。ps:對她某些自我描寫的語調實在無法忍受。
評分行走在平衡木上
評分這本書買瞭很久也拖瞭很久纔讀完,原諒我真的不能理解書裏各種莫名其妙的小情緒。
評分實話說中間有些絮絮叨叨令人無法忍受。我當時在想為什麼要繼續這個女人的故事,不過也許她讓我看到她勇敢的一麵吧。ps:對她某些自我描寫的語調實在無法忍受。
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