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The Last American Man Analog audio cassette - 2002

by Elizabeth Gilbert; Read by Patricia Kalember


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What does it mean to be a man in modern America? Do men somehow better themselves when they leave civilization and head into the woods? "The Last American Man" is a cultural examination of contemporary American male identity and the uniquely American desire to return to the wilderness.

From the frontier West to American utopian communities, Elizabeth Gilbert has produced a history of American manhood as it has never been told before.

To illustrate her story, Gilbert uses the rich and fascinating case study of Eustace Conway, a man who has lived in the Appalachian Mountains since the age of 17. Conway has worked tirelessly to try to convince his fellow Americans to give up self-destructive modern lifestyles and return with him to the primal sanctuary of the wilderness. He is a living metaphor that challenges all assumptions about what it is to be a modern man in America.

"The Last American Man" is at the same time an adventure saga and a thoughtful meditation on the relationship of man to the wilderness. It is also a reflection of masculine American identity in all its conflicting elements energy, isolation, narcissism, inventiveness, audacity, and destiny."

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  • Title The Last American Man
  • Author Elizabeth Gilbert; Read by Patricia Kalember
  • Binding Analog Audio Cassette
  • Edition Abridged
  • Pages 390
  • Volumes 4
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher HighBridge Audio
  • Date 2002-05-01
  • Abridged Yes
  • ISBN 9781565116528 / 1565116526
  • Weight 0.38 lbs (0.17 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.24 x 4.56 x 1.24 in (18.39 x 11.58 x 3.15 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Dewey Decimal Code B
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Highbridge Company. New in New dust jacket. 2002. Audio Book. 1565116526 . 9 oz.; New factory sealed abridged Audio Book Gift Quality. 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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