Eat, Pray, Love

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Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love (2010, Bloomsbury Publishing)

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Published Dec. 14, 2010 by Bloomsbury Publishing.

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978-1-4088-0866-5
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A funny, tender, utterly beguiling story about a woman's search for happiness It's 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby – and she doesn't want any of it. A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she emerges battered and bewildered and realises it is time to pursue her own journey in search of three things she has been missing: pleasure, devotion and balance. So she travels to Rome, where she learns Italian from handsome, brown-eyed identical twins and gains twenty-five pounds, an ashram in India, where she finds that enlightenment entails getting up in the middle of the night to scrub the temple floor, and Bali where a toothless medicine man of indeterminate age offers her a new path to peace: simply sit still and smile. And slowly happiness …

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