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Wild [electronic resource] : From lost to found on the pacific crest trail. Cheryl Strayed.
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- ISBN: 9780307957658 (electronic bk)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource
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| Summary, etc.: | #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life. With no experience or training, driven only by blind will, she would hike more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State—and she would do it alone. Told with suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild powerfully captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her. |
| Target Audience Note: | Text Difficulty 5 - Text Difficulty 8 UG/Upper grades (9th-12) 1020 Lexile. 6.5 ATOS Level |
| Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. New York : Vintage, 2012. Requires the Libby app or a modern web browser. |
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| Subject: | Nonfiction. Biography & Autobiography. Travel. |
| Genre: | Electronic books. |
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Wild : From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Oprah's Book Club 2. 0)
Cheryl Strayed, née Nyland, was born on September 17, 1968 in Spangler, Pennsylvania. She is an American memoirist, novelist and essayist. Her second book, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail was published in the United States on March 20, 2012, and has been translated into more than thirty languages. It is an Oprah Book Club 2.0 choice, made the New York Times Bestseller list and was optioned for film rights by Reese Witherspoon even before it was published. The film is scheduled to be released in 2014. Strayed's first book, the novel Torch, was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in February 2006. She attended the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree, graduating magna cum laude with a double major in English and Women's Studies. A long-time feminist activist, Strayed served on the first board of directors for VIDA: Women in Literary Arts. (Bowker Author Biography)
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