At twenty-six, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's rapid death from cancer, her family disbanded and her marriage crumbled. With nothing to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to walk eleven-hundred miles of the west coast of America - from the Mojave Desert, through California and Oregon, and into Washington state - and to do it alone. She had no experience of long-distance hiking and the journey was nothing more than a line on a map. But it held a promise - a promise of piecing together a life that lay in ruins at her feet. Strayed's account captures the agonies - both mental and physical - of her incredible journey; how it maddened and terrified her, and how, ultimately, it healed her. Wild is a brutal memoir of survival, grief and redemption: a searing portrayal of life at its lowest ebb and at its highest tide.
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'One of the best books I've read in the last five or ten years... Wild is angry, brave, sad, self-knowing, redemptive, raw, compelling, and brilliantly written, and I think it's destined to be loved by a lot of people, men and women, for a very long time.' Nick Hornby
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PART ONE: THE TEN THOUSAND THINGS 1: The Ten Thousand Things 2: Splitting 3: Hunching in a Remotely Upright Position PART TWO: TRACKS 4: The Pacific Crest Trail, Volume 1: California 5: Tracks 6: A Bull in Both Directions 7: The Only Girl in the Woods PART THREE: RANGE OF LIGHT 8: Corvidology 9: Staying Found 10: Range of Light PART FOUR: WILD 11: The Lou Out of Lou 12: This Far 13: The Accumulation of Trees 14: Wild PART FIVE: BOX OF RAIN 15: Box of Rain 16: Mazama 17: Into a Primal Gear 18: Queen of the PCT 19: The Dream of a Common Language
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Clear, honest, and quietly riveting

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781838959548
Publisert
2023-08-03
Utgiver
Vendor
Atlantic Books
Vekt
304 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
24 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
336

Forfatter

Biographical note

Cheryl Strayed is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Torch, the huge New York Times-bestselling memoir Wild and the collection of essays Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who's Been There. Her work has appeared in numerous magazines and journals, including The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine, Allure and The Rumpus. She lives in Portland, Oregon.