Committed : A Love Story

by Gilbert, Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9780143118701
• ISBN10: 0143118706
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-02-01
• Publisher: Penguin Books

Summary

The #1 New York Times bestselling follow up to Eat, Pray, Love an intimate and erudite celebration of love.

At the end of her memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian living in Indonesia. The couple swore eternal love, but also swore (as skittish divorce survivors) never to marry. However, providence intervened in the form of a U.S. government ultimatum: get married, or Felipe could never enter America again. Told with Gilbert's trademark humor and intelligence, this fascinating meditation on compatibility and fidelity chronicles Gilbert's complex and sometimes frightening journey into second marriage, and will enthrall the millions of readers who made Eat, Pray, Love a number one bestseller.

Elizabeth Gilbert is an award winning writer of both fiction and nonfiction. Her previous books include the short story collection Pilgrims; a novel, Stern Men; The Last American Man and Eat, Pray, Love.

Author Biography

Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of a short story collection, Pilgrims-a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and winner of the 1999 John C. Zacharis First Book Award from Ploughshares-and a novel, Stern Men. A Pushcart Prize winner and National Magazine Award-nominated journalist, she works as writer-at-large for GQ. Her journalism has been published in Harper's Bazaar, Spin, and The New York Times Magazine, and her stories have appeared in Esquire, Story, and the Paris Review.

Table of Contents

A Note to the Reader	p. xiii
Marriage and Surprises	p. 1
Marriage and Expectation	p. 25
Marriage and History	p. 51
Marriage and Infatuation	p. 87
Marriage and Women	p. 135
Marriage and Autonomy	p. 203
Marriage and Subversion	p. 233
Marriage and Ceremony	p. 269
Acknowledgments	p. 281
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