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" A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed. In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love, adventure and discovery.
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Classical in form, earnest, epic and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- rawmeticulous
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- Author
- Elizabeth Gilbert
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 576
- Publisher
- Ripol Klassik, Viking, Bloomsbury Publishing
- Editions
- 31
- Language
- French, Spanish, Polish, Russian
- ISBN
- 9781408841921
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Elizabeth Gilbert is an award-winning writer of both fiction and non-fiction. Her short story collection Pilgrims was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway award, and her novel Stern Men was a New York Times notable book. Her 2002 book The Last American Man was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critic’s Circle Award. Her memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, spent 57 weeks in the #1 spot on the New York Times paperback bestseller list. It has shipped over 6 million copies in the US and has been published in over thirty languages. A film adaptation of the book was released by Columbia Pictures.
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