Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything - Softcover

Gilbert, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0747585660 ISBN 13: 9780747585664

Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2007

Synopsis

It's 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby - and she doesn't want any of it. A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she emerges battered and bewildered and realises it is time to pursue her own journey in search of three things she has been missing: pleasure, devotion and balance. So she travels to Rome, where she learns Italian from handsome, brown-eyed identical twins and gains twenty-five pounds, an ashram in India, where she finds that enlightenment entails getting up in the middle of the night to scrub the temple floor, and Bali where a toothless medicine man of indeterminate age offers her a new path to peace: simply sit still and smile. And slowly happiness begins to creep up on her.

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Review:

'"My friend Paige and I are reading a book together, Eat, Pray, Love, and we keep calling each other saying "What page are you on?" It's about a woman's sojourn through three countries, and it's fantastic. It's what I'm giving all my girlfriends for Christmas." (Julia is scheduled to play Elizabeth in the film adaptation. She sent her the prayer beads, the ones she wore each day that whole year.)' -- Julia Roberts, Life Magazine

'Every woman should read it' -- Elle Macpherson, Daily Telegraph

'I adore it and am getting a copy to everyone I know'
-- Sophie Dahl

'I've just finished reading Eat, Pray, Love, which is amazing. It's not that it's light -- it's incredibly deep and connected and wonderful -- it's just that she writes with such lightness.' -- Minnie Driver

'Meg recently read Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. "I loved it," says Meg, whose split from Quaid and subsequent relationship with actor Russell Crowe in 2000 were much publicized. "I could understand her wanting to write the book and her desire to heal. She gets a divorce and decides she's going to do what she wants to do."' -- Meg Ryan, Redbook

`A witty, honest account of loss and new beginnings, this will be
enjoyed by anyone who's realised "having it all" isn't all it's cracked up
to be' -- Easy Living

`A writer of incandescent talent' -- Annie Proulx

`If a more likable writer than Gilbert is currently in print, I
haven't found him or her ... irresistible' -- New York Times

`It's a good read. I can't get away from it' -- Britney Spears, Glamour

From the Publisher:

The Number One New York Times Bestseller - A combination of
Battersea Park Road to Enlightenment, Driving over Lemons and The Girl's
Guide to Hunting and Fishing.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0747585660
• ISBN 13: 9780747585664
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384