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The Last American Man (signed)

The Last American Man (signed)

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The Last American Man (signed)

by GILBERT, ELIZABETH

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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket: Fine. First edition. Inscribed on the title page by Elizabeth Gilbert and Eustace Con/Fine
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First Edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed on the title page by Elizabeth Gilbert and Eustace Conway. Very scarce signed by Conway. Fine in original two-toned boards and fine pictorial dust jacket.

In The Last American Man, acclaimed journalist and fiction writer Elizabeth Gilbert offers a fresh cultural examination of contemporary American male identity and the uniquely American desire to return to the wilderness. "Explores the fascinating true story of Eustace Conway, who left his comfortable suburban home at the age of seventeen to move into the Appalachian Mountains, where for the last twenty years he has lived, making fire with sticks, wearing skins from animals, . . . and living off the land." Octavo. 271 pp.

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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Bookseller
Grinning Cat Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
28753
Title
The Last American Man (signed)
Author
GILBERT, ELIZABETH
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
New
Jacket Condition
Fine
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First Edition
Publisher
Viking
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
2002
Weight
0.00 lbs
Keywords
EUSTACE CONWAY

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