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Original Title: The Last American Man
ISBN: 0142002836 (ISBN13: 9780142002834)
Edition Language: English
Setting: Appalachia(United States)
Literary Awards: National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Biography/Autobiography (2002), National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction (2002)
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The Last American Man Paperback | Pages: 271 pages
Rating: 3.81 | 8872 Users | 1067 Reviews

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Title:The Last American Man
Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Special Edition
Pages:Pages: 271 pages
Published:May 27th 2003 by Riverhead Books (first published May 13th 2002)
Categories:Nonfiction. Biography. Environment. Nature. Adventure. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography Memoir. Outdoors

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Finalist for the National Book Award 2002

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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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3.5 stars - It was really good.Every time I drive by my local high school and see a metrosexual boy in his skinny jeans with his emo hair, I thank God that I narrowly missed that dating pool selection. Masculinity is not exactly what it used to be, is it? It would be difficult to explain what this book is about because it touches on so very many different topics, but the change in American culture, particularly the sharp decrease in self-sufficiency, is the main focus. There is also an



As a librarian, people often ask me for my book recommendations, and then I get discouraged when they stubbornly refuse to take them. The Last American Man is a book that I wish I could get more people to read. You may recognize the name Elizabeth Gilbert from her bestselling memoir Eat Pray Love. The problem with a massive success like EPL is that people seem to have pigeonholed Gilbert into only one genre, when the truth as my fellow readers already know is that good writers are artists and

Eustace Conway is a terribly fascinating and tremendously unique individual, exactly the sort of person that deserves a biography. Unfortunately, this is not the book he deserves.Too many biographers (which is to say, more than none) make the mistake that Elizabeth Gilbert makes here. She has trouble staying out of the way of the story that would be conveyed by nothing more complicated than a straight narrative with some judicious focus on key events. That, I believe could have made for an

I knew of Eustace Conway before reading this and that was the only reason I read it because I didn't like Eat, Pray, Love. I think this would have been a more successful book about "the last american man" had it been written by Jon Krakauer. Gilbert annoyed me yet again and this book is not really about living a life more like Eustace Conway, it is a book psychoanalyzing his personality, relationship and family issues. Which gets really old, really quick. She tries to argue that Americans are

This was my introduction to Elizabeth Gilbert. It was a random meeting, a freak of fate. Walking into my local public library I saw this book on a shelf I was passing, and thought "What... there aren't any men in America anymore?" Intrigued, I picked it up, positive it was some take-back-the-country-from-the-feminists spiel from some conservative talking head. I was a bit surprised to see it was written by a woman. What the heck Id check it out (mostly to see what had happened to all the men in

Honestly, as I noted in my progress report, this book is way too much about Elizabeth Gilbert. While Eustace Conway is an interesting, unique character, Gilbert's rendition of the man, his philosophy and life story is too filled with her personal opinion and prejudices. I find it difficult to believe that this book was a National Book Award finalist. I feel as if on some level, Mr. Conway was used.