Wild (a Journey From Lost To Found)

By (author) Strayed, Cheryl
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The official tie-in edition to the stunning film adaptation of the bestselling memoir, starring Reese Witherspoon.
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A number one New York Times bestseller
Oprah''s Book Club 2.0 selection
Radio Four''s ''Book of the Week''

The official tie-in edition to the stunningly raw and powerful film adaptation of the bestselling memoir, starring Reese Witherspoon.

At twenty-six, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother''s rapid death from cancer, her family disbanded and her marriage crumbled. With nothing to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to walk eleven-hundred miles of the west coast of America and to do it alone. She had no experience of long-distance hiking and the journey was nothing more than a line on a map. But it held a promise - a promise of piecing together a life that lay shattered at her feet...

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One of the best books I''ve read in the last five or ten years... Wild is angry, brave, sad, self-knowing, redemptive, raw, compelling, and brilliantly written, and I think it''s destined to be loved by a lot of people, men and women, for a very long time.
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Epic and moving
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Funny and fierce
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Extraordinary... Truly wild: dirty, beautiful, serene
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It''s not very manly, the topic of weeping while reading... Wild pretty much obliterated me
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A deeply honest memoir about mother and daughter, solitude and courage, and regaining footing, one step at a time
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Amazing and inspiring

Biographical note
Cheryl Strayed is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, which has sold more than four million copies worldwide and was made into an Oscar-nominated major motion picture. Tiny Beautiful Things has been adapted as a play and as a television series airing in 2023. Cheryl is also the author of Brave Enough, which brings together more than one hundred of her inspiring quotes, and the debut novel Torch. She has hosted two hit podcasts, Sugar Calling and Dear Sugars. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
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The official tie-in edition to the stunning film adaptation of the bestselling memoir, starring Reese Witherspoon.