Some journalists would habitually prefix "other books" with "serious" or "literary", because of Gilbert's award-winning journalism and National Book Award nomination for The Last American Man, a work of nonfiction. To Gilbert it was year zero, and not just because many of her Eat Pray Love fans didn't realise she had already written lots of other books. Published in 2006, since when it has sold more than 10 million copies, it quickly became a self-improvement guide for women keen to make sense of their lives and the choices they'd made. Elizabeth Gilbert knows this feeling well, having written Eat Pray Love.Ī bestselling memoir of self-exploration, it has been called everything along the pejorative spectrum from self-help to chick lit. The moment is stranger still if the book is so different from their other work that it is something of a black sheep. If an author is lucky, there comes a moment – a strange moment, quite likely – when, having laboured in isolation, one of their books is catapulted into the limelight.
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