Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Oprah's Book Club 2.0)
Mar 2012 · Vintage
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 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.
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. With no experience or training, driven only by blind will, she would hike more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State—and she would do it alone.
Told with suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild powerfully captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her.
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. With no experience or training, driven only by blind will, she would hike more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State—and she would do it alone.
Told with suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild powerfully 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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Dino
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March 23, 2015
I was SO into this book. Cheryl being a fellow Minnesotan and a strong willed woman. I myself want to go backpacking and such. I felt as if I could connect in various ways. Then I got to chaper four. She gave most of what I read to her mother, yet talks of getting an abortion with a total lack of regard towards the childs life.. Stating how she instantly knew it was what she wanted. The quote, "I got an abortion and learned how to make dehydrayed tuna flakes and yadda yadda." Ruined the whole thing for me..
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Li Gardner
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November 22, 2015
This story resonated deeply with me on many levels. One was the passing of my own mother, and the book provided both distraction from and insight into my grief. Another is my appreciation for the sheer guts to trek the PCT, and the resemblances to my own wild travels that helped me both find and solidify myself. And finally, I was glad to see the interspersion of information about the PCT itself, its history and the hope for its future, which beckons us all to once again walk in the wild.
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Nguyễn Quốc Hân
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August 29, 2015
Review: Demigods and Monsters: Your Favorite Authors on Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series It's a book of essays on a book series. NOT EVEN GOOD ESSAYS! One of the essay's says 'now I am to the point of this essay' OMGS! yes I am a dedicated Rick Riordan fan and I thought it would be kind of cool to read about what other published authors thought about the excelent series.
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About the author
CHERYL STRAYED is the author of the #1 New York Times best seller Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, which was the first selection for Oprah's Book Club 2.0 and became an Oscar-nominated film starring Reese Witherspoon;Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar, a national best seller now the basis of the WBUR podcast Dear Sugar Radio, co-hosted with Steve Almond; and Torch, her debut novel. Her books have been translated into forty languages, and her essays and other writings have appeared in numerous publications.
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