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Enlightenment for Idiots: A Novel
by Cushman, Anne
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Dust Jacket Included
- ISBN 10
- 0307381641
- ISBN 13
- 9780307381644
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About This Item
Crown. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. 0307381641 First edition, First printing. Not inscribed clipped or otherwise marked. Shipped in a box. Complete # line 10987654321.Fine/Fine
Synopsis
Nearing age thirty, Amanda thought she'd be someone else by now. Instead, she's just herself: an ex-nanny yogini-wannabe who cranks out "For Idiots" travel guides just to scrape by. Yes, she has her sexy photographer boyfriend, but he's usually gone--shooting a dogsled race in Alaska or a vision quest in Peru--or just hooking up with other girls. However, she's sure her new assignment, "Enlightenment for Idiots," will change everything; now she'll become the serene, centered woman she was meant to be. After some breakup sex, she's off to India to find a new, more spiritual life.What she finds, though, is an ashram run by investment bankers, a yoga master who trashes her knee, and a guru with a weakness for fashion models. She escapes a tantra party at the Taj Hotel, has a nasty argument outside the cave where the Buddha used to meditate, then agonizes through the ten-day silent retreat that's supposed to make her feel better. No, India is not what she had pictured. But she finds a friend in Devi Das, a redheaded sadhu who refers to himself as "we." And when a holy lunatic on the street offers her an enigmatic blessing, Amanda realizes a new life may be in store for her--just not the one she was expecting.From the Hardcover edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Garys Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU1009549
- Title
- Enlightenment for Idiots: A Novel
- Author
- Cushman, Anne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket Included
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0307381641
- ISBN 13
- 9780307381644
- Publisher
- Crown
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- March 11, 2008
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