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Wild

From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Author: Cheryl Strayed and Laurel Lefkow  

A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe – and built her back up again.

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A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe – and built her back up again.

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At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to hike the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State – and to do it alone. She had no experience as a long-distance hiker, and the trail was little more than 'an idea, vague and outlandish and full of promise'. But it was a promise of piecing back together a life that had come undone.Strayed faces down rattlesnakes and black bears, intense heat and record snowfalls, and both the beauty and loneliness of the trail. Told with great suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humour, Wild vividly captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened and ultimately healed her.

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Critic Reviews

'I love this book. I want to shout it from the mountaintop.' -- Oprah Winfrey
'Angry, brave, sad, self-knowing, redemptive, raw, compelling, and brilliantly written ... It is destined to be loved by a lot of people, men and women, for a very long time.' -- Nick Hornby
'Extraordinary ... Truly wild: dirty, beautiful, serene.' -- The Sunday Telegraph
'A deeply honest memoir about mother and daughter, solitude and courage, and regaining footing, one step at a time.' -- Vogue

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About the Author

Cheryl Strayed is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Wild, the New York Times bestseller Tiny Beautiful Things and the novel Torch. Wild was chosen by Oprah Winfrey as her first selection for Oprah's Book Club 2.0. Strayed's award-winning writing has appeared in The Best American Essays, the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post Magazine, Vogue, Salon, The Missouri Review, The Sun, Tin House, The Rumpus – where she wrote the popular "Dear Sugar" advice column – and elsewhere. Her books have been translated into more than thirty languages around the world. The movie adaptation of Wild will be released by Fox Searchlight in December 2014. The film is directed by Jean-Marc Vallée and stars Reese Witherspoon, with a screenplay by Nick Hornby. Strayed holds an MFA in fiction writing from Syracuse University and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and their two children. Laurel Lefkow trained at the Webber Douglas Academy and is an accomplished television, film and radio actress. She has numerous awards for her audiobook narration and is a frequent voice on BBC Radio 4. Recent film and television credits include: Black Mirror, The Diplomat, Absentia and the films Fair Play and Misbehaviour. She lives in London with her two daughters.

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Product Details

Publisher
Bolinda Publishing | Bolinda/Audible Audio
Published
1st January 2015
ISBN
9781486257621

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