Her carefully honed sentences are as sharp as knives." "Strayed gives the impression of tapping raw emotion while at the same time exerting tremendous authorial control. The film adaptation of her book - itself already a classic of wilderness writing and modern feminism - provides another reason to be grateful that she did." A.O. "Cheryl Strayed needed to be alone in the vast American outdoors, but she also needed to tell us about it. "Cheryl Strayed is a courageous, gritty, and deceptively elegant writer." "Big-hearted, keen-eyed, lyrical, precise.Cheryl Strayed reminds us in every line that if defeat and despair are part of human experience, so are kindness, patience, and transcendence." It’s got a punk spirit and makes an earthy and American sound." Dwight Garner, New York Times. This book is as loose and sexy and dark as an early Lucinda Williams song. Wild is "uplifting, but not in the way of many memoirs, where the uplift makes you feel that you’re committing mental suicide.
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