Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed (2012, Hardcover)

Key Details
Author:	Cheryl Strayed
Language:	English
Publisher:	Alfred a Knopf Inc
Format:	Hardcover
ISBN-10:	0307592731
ISBN-13:	9780307592736

Size
Length:	315 pages
Thickness:	1.2 in
Weight:	20.8 oz

Publisher's Note
A powerful, blazingly honest, inspiring memoir: the story of a 1,100 mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe--and built her back up again.
 
At twenty-six, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's devastating death, her family scattered, and her own marriage was soon destroyed. With nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to hike the Pacific Crest trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State--and to do it alone. She had no experience as a long-distance hiker, and the trail was little more than "an idea, vague and outlandish and full of promise." But it was a promise of piecing back together a life that had come undone. Gorgeously told, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild is the vivid story of a young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her.

Industry Reviews
"Perhaps her adventure is so gripping because Strayed relates its gritty, visceral details not out of a desire to milk its obviously dramatic circumstances but out of a powerful, yet understated, imperative to understand its meaning. We come to feel how her actions and her internal struggles intertwine, and appreciate the lessons she finds embedded in the natural world."
(04/01/2012)

"This book is as loose and sexy and dark as an early Lucinda Williams song. It's got a punk spirit and makes an earthy and American sound."
(03/28/2012)

"Strayed writes a crisp scene; her sentences hum with energy. She can describe a trail-parched yearning for Snapple like no writer I know. She moves us briskly along the route, making discrete rest stops to parcel out her backstory. It is improvised and often unnerving.".
(03/25/2012)

"It is [Strayed's] voice--fierce, billowing with energy, precise--that carries WILD. . . . By turns both devastating and glorious, Strayed uses it to narrate her progress and setbacks on the trail and within herself."
(03/03/2012)

"Strayed recounts the road to redemption--a road buried in snow, crawling with rattlers, and patrolled by bears--with humor and irrefutably hard-won wisdom."
(03/13/2012)