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The Last American Man
by Gilbert, Elizabeth
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0670030864
- ISBN 13
- 9780670030866
- Seller
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La Grande, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Riverhead Hardcover, 2002. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Signed in the year of publication by both Gilbert and the subject of the book, "the last American man," Eustace Conway. Gilberts's inscription on the title page reads: "To Allen and Susanna--All the best, and thanks for coming to see me read! Elizabeth Gilbert, Oxford, 2002." Conway has traced his hand on the front free end paper and drawn a heart in the middle (on the palm, as it were) with an "E" at its center, presumable for Eustace (but resonantly also standing for Elizabeth). Uncommon to have both signature. A book that did very well in its own right on the way to Eat, Pray, Love, a book about the mythos of the frontier man in the vein of Krakauer's Into the Wild. Fine book in near fine jacket with a bit of wearing to edges and rubbing. Comes also with a Penguin paperback reading copy with a few instances of highlighting. // Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in place-based and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions.
Synopsis
Finalist for the National Book Award 2002 In this rousing examination of contemporary American male identity, acclaimed author and journalist Elizabeth Gilbert explores the fascinating true story of Eustace Conway. In 1977, at the age of seventeen, Conway left his family's comfortable suburban home to move to the Appalachian Mountains. For more than two decades he has lived there, making fire with sticks, wearing skins from animals he has trapped, and trying to convince Americans to give up their materialistic lifestyles and return with him back to nature. To Gilbert, Conway's mythical character challenges all our assumptions about what it is to be a modern man in America; he is a symbol of much we feel how our men should be, but rarely are.
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- Rural Hours
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ABE-1663823249764
- Title
- The Last American Man
- Author
- Gilbert, Elizabeth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670030864
- ISBN 13
- 9780670030866
- Publisher
- Riverhead Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2002
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About Rural Hours
Rural Hours (formerly Wood + River = Books, est. 2019) specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing, the environment, environmental literature, and contemporary essay, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions. We draw our name from the popular-but-then-forgotten book by Susan Fenimore Cooper (published in 1850), generally considered the first work of environmental creative nonfiction by a woman in the U.S. We are interested in challenging and expanding the canon of environmental literature and finding books that tell remarkable stories and illuminate the tradition of writing about place and natural history.
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