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Abstract
The known writer of The Last American Man writes an irresistible, direct, and fluent account of her chase of worldly delight and spiritual commitment.
By the time she turned thirty, Elizabeth Gilbert had everything a contemporary, educated, ambitious American woman was supposed to wish -a spouse, a family house in the country, a productive business. But instead of feeling fortunate and fulfilled, she was exhausted with fear, heartache and confusion. She went through a separation, a crushing crises, new love and the full destruction of idea of life she had ever had.
To recover from all that mess, Gilbert made an ultra radical step. In order to give herself the time and space to find out who she really was and what were her actual goals, she trashed of her belongings, quit her work, left her beloved ones behind and undertook a year-long journey around the world, all alone. Eat, Pray, Love is the chronicle of that year. Gilbert’s aim was to see three places, where she could question one feature of her own nature, set against the background of a culture that has traditionally done that one thing very well. In Italy, she learned about the art of joy, learning to communicate in Italian and gaining the twenty-three happiest pounds of her life. India was for the art of devotion, where, with the support of a native guru and an amazingly smart Texan, she embarked on four months of austere spiritual research. Finally, in Indonesia, she reached her final objects: balance -namely, how to in some way build a life of equilibrium between worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. Looking for these answers on the island of Bali, she became the student of an aged, ninth-generation medicine man and also fell in love in the best possible way-without any expectations.
Eat, Pray, Love is a look at what may happen when you claim responsibility for your own contentment. It is also about the adventures which can change when a woman starts to live on her own. This is a story definitely to touch anyone who has ever woken up to the urgent need for change.