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[...] at least 85 per cent of the apprentices who arrive at Turtle Island starry-eyed and enthusiastic leave before the end of their traineeship, furious or in tears at his unreasonable demands; and a seemingly endless stream of lovers abandon him, at first attracted by his single-minded passion, but ultimately repelled by his total inflexibility. [...] Eustace appears both heroic and pitiable - one of the greatest obstacles between him and his goals is "the buckling heat of his worries and convictions and personal drive".
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A Walk On the Wild Side
A walk on the wild side The Last American Man Elizabeth Gilbert Bloomsbury, 288pp, £14.99
Several years before Elizabeth Gilbert wrote Eat, Pray, Love, her multimillion selling memoir of a year spent travelling the world in pursuit of spiritual wellbeing after a bad divorce, she profiled an altogether mo...See the full content of this document
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