The Last American Man

The Last American Man

271 pages
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Published: 13 May 2002
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ISBN: 9780142002834

Format: Paperback

Language: English

Publisher: Riverhead Books

Publication date: 27 May 2003

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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.