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Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert (2010) - NEW Unabridged on CD 

Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert (2010) - NEW Unabridged on CD
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Title: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace With Marriage
Publication Year: 2010Subject: Biography & Autobiography, Relationships
Length: UnabridgedTopic: Personal Memoirs, Women, Marriage
Language: EnglishAuthor: Elizabeth Gilbert
ISBN-10: 0143145754Format: Audio
ISBN-13: 9780143145752Publisher: Penguin Group USA

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Synopsis
In this continuation of her bestselling sensation EAT, PRAY, LOVE, Elizabeth Gilbert comes to realize that finding the man of her dreams might be easier than staying married to him. Though both Gilbert and Felipe, the beau she met in Bali (the "Love" portion of her previous book), had sworn off the institute of marriage after disastrous divorces, they were actively encouraged to reconsider when Homeland Security threw Felipe out of the country. After trading vows, they each bucked against the restrictions of commitment, but eventually they discovered an unusual formula for wedded bliss. Amidst the pressure of following up a blockbuster, Gilbert proves that she does not require a grandiose quest through lush, exotic locales to evoke the pleasure and serenity of spiritual renewal.

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Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
Language:English
Publisher:Penguin Group USA
Format:Audio
ISBN-10:0143145754
ISBN-13:9780143145752

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Edition Description:Unabridged

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Thickness:0.8 in
Weight:6.4 oz

Publisher's Note
The author chronicles how the U.S. government gave her and her Brazilian-born lover, Felipe, an ultimatum--marry or Felipe cannot enter the country again--and how she tackled her fears through research and personal reflection on the enduring institution of marriage.

The author of the best-selling Eat, Pray, Love chronicles how the U.S. government gave her and her Brazilian-born lover, Felipe, an ultimatum--marry or Felipe cannot enter the country again--and how she tackled her fears of marriage by trying to discover through historical research, interviews and personal reflection what this stubbornly enduring old institution actually is. Simultaneous.

Industry Reviews
"Gilbert's frustrating, tense, uncertain and circuitous journey in COMMITTED reads like a heightened version of the second stage of love, when the euphoria has faded, daily habits begin to cloy and lovers become irritable. Bubbling to the surface time and again in this all too human story is a rich brew of newfound insight and wisdom and a priceless sense of humor."
(01/05/2010)

"[W]hile EAT, PRAY, LOVE struck a chord by giving 'pleasers' permission to please themselves for a change, it's Gilbert's voice that accounted for its phenomenal success. Smart but unpretentious, funny, warm and generous, this is the same voice behind COMMITTED. By the end of one of her books, you feel as if she is your friend too. It's a pleasure to be back in that friend's company again."
(01/03/2010)

"COMMITTED is not a sociological work. There is no bibliography, and no footnotes slow you down. The book is bright and easygoing, propelled by Gilbert's lively curiosity; it's amusing, chatty and often insightful. It also provides a forum by which the opinionated Gilbert can vent about various issues...."
(01/03/2010)

"[I]f the sum of the parts in COMMITTED add up to an awkward whole, many of those parts are nevertheless terrific....As a tour guide to both Asia and matrimony, Gilbert is consistently entertaining and illuminating and often funny."
(01/10/2010)

"What [Gilbert] offers in COMMITTED, as in EAT, PRAY, LOVE, is not scholarship or even argument, but rather voice. Her genius is in flipping an old literary script - she's not addressing us as her dear readers, but instead acting as our dear writer, an ideal friend: smart but not intimidating, wise but not smarmy, kind but imperfect, funny in a way that makes us feel better about ourselves."
(01/10/2010)

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Committed

BY

Elizabeth Gilbert

Brand New Audiobook – Still in Shrink Wrap

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          At the end of her best-selling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who had been living in Indonesia where they met. Resettling to America, the couple swore eternal fidelity to each other, but they also swore to never, ever, under any circumstances, get married. (Both were survivors of previous bad divorces. Enough said.) But providence intervened one day in the form of the U.S. Government which-after detaining Felipe at an American border crossing--gave the couple a chance: They could either get married or Felipe would never be allowed to enter the country again.

 

          Having been effectively "sentenced to web," Gilbert decided to tackle her fears of matrimony by becoming a student of the institution. Over the next ten months, as she and Felipe wandered haphazardly across Southeast Asia, waiting for the U.S. government to permit them to return to America and get married, the only thing she talked about, read about, or thought about was this perplexing subject.

 

          Committed tells the story of one woman's efforts--through contemplation, historical study, and extensive conversation with every soul she encountered along the way--to make peace with marriage before she entered its estate once more. Told with Gilbert's trademark wit, intelligence, and compassion, the book attemps to "turn on all the lights" when it comes to matrimony, frankly examining questions of compatibility, infatuation, fidelity, family-tradition, social expectations, divorce risks, and humbling responsibilities. Myths are debuked, fears are unthreaded, historical perspective is sought, and romatic fantasies are ultimately exchanged for vital emotional compromises. In the end, the book becomes a kind of celebration of love--with all the complexity and consequences that real love, in the real world, will always entail.

 

Unabridged on 7 CDs

Retail: $29.95

 

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