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    <![CDATA[The Last American Man]]>
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    <![CDATA[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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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a portrait of an extraordinary man with very ordinary flaws.  In all actuality the take away message of this book is a not as revolutionary as Eustace Conway seems at first glance.  Ambition drives Eustace and it is the catalyst for many of the incredible stories Gilbert relates. In the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12586930">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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