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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