Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
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| Author | Cheryl Strayed |
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| Country | United States of America |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Memoirs; Education and Reference |
| Publisher | Knopf |
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March 20, 2012 |
| Media type | Hardcover, Kindle Edition, Audio CD, Audible Audio |
| Pages | 336 pages (hardcover) |
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail is a 2012 memoir by the American author Cheryl Strayed, describing her 1,100-mile hike on the Pacific Crest Trail in 1995 as a journey of self-discovery. The book reached No. 1 on the New York Times Best Seller list, and was the first selection for Oprah's Book Club 2.0.
The film adaptation was released in December 2014.
Wild is Cheryl Strayed's memoir of her 1,100 mile solo hike along the Pacific Crest Trail, beginning in the Mojave Desert and hiking through California and Oregon to the Bridge of the Gods into Washington. The book also contains flashbacks to prior life occurrences that led her to begin her journey.
At age 22, Strayed had been devastated by the lung cancer death of her mother at 45. Her stepfather disengaged from Strayed's family, and her brother and sister remained distant. Strayed started using heroin, and eventually she and her husband divorced.
Seeking self-discovery and resolution of her enduring grief and personal challenges, at age 26 Strayed set out on her journey, alone and with no prior hiking experience. Wild intertwines the stories of Strayed's life before and during the journey, describing her physical challenges and spiritual realizations while on the trail.
By the time the book was published, actress Reese Witherspoon's film company, Pacific Standard, had optioned Wild for film rights. Witherspoon portrayed Strayed in the 2014 film Wild, which was written by Nick Hornby and directed by Jean-Marc Vallée.
In The New York Times, Dwight Garner wrote that "the lack of ease in (Strayed's) life made her fierce and funny; she hammers home her hard-won sentences like a box of nails," adding that the memoir reflected a "too infrequent sight: that of a writer finding her voice, and sustaining it, right in front of your eyes."
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