Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found
May 2012 · Atlantic Books Ltd
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Selected to be read on Radio Four's Book of the Week.
'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
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.
'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
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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4.4
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Martin McCarthy
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October 16, 2014
Great book, but buy a paper copy... the eBook version is very bad. I guess the publishers decided to do it on the cheap, and it really shows, which does a great disservice to the author. There are no quote marks or apostrophes. So if you cant read this sentence without getting annoyed its likely youll hate the books formatting. And dashes mid sentence have disappeared, leavingwords thatare allsmashed togetherlikethis.
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RobynLouise Thomas (robynlouise)
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September 14, 2016
No, not really, but I felt like it throughout this book. I couldn't put it down because I felt the need to get to end of the trail with Cheryl. My only dislike was the graphic details of the hard parts of her life before her journey started. I understand why she wanted to write about them, but I didn't enjoy reading them.
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Michelle Colpus
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April 6, 2015
I found it so difficult to put this book down. It was as though I was there trudging along beside Cheryl whilst she came to terms with her past and herself and "find herself". Lyrical and overflowing with metaphors of her inner and outer world, I am left hungering for more of the same. It makes me dream of taking a journey of thousands of miles, carrying this book as company. Thank-you for sharing your journey in such a raw way.
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About the author
Cheryl Strayed is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, which has sold more than four million copies worldwide and was made into an Oscar-nominated major motion picture. Tiny Beautiful Things has been adapted as a play and as a television series airing in 2023. Cheryl is also the author of Brave Enough, which brings together more than one hundred of her inspiring quotes, and the debut novel Torch. She has hosted two hit podcasts, Sugar Calling and Dear Sugars. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
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