Sex Death Enlightenment: A True Story
by Mark Matousek 
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"It's hard to know when you're having a breakdown in New York City. The symptoms of living here, succeeding here, and losing your mind here are almost identical." So begins Matousek's 1996 breakout memoir about leaving a fast-track publishing life (working for pop artist Andy Warhol atInterview Magazine) and hitting the dharma trail in search of a meaningful life and spiritual wisdom. Hailed by Publisher's Weekly as "brave, beautiful, and brilliantly observed,"Sex Death Enlightenment became show more an international best seller (published in 10 countries). Like Elizabeth Gilbert inEat Pray Love and Paul Monette inBorrowed Time, Matousek takes the reader on an insightful, rollicking search for answers to life's deepest questions in this landmark memoir. "Mark Matousek takes you everywhere his title promises - and then some.Sex Death Enlightenment is the most gripping and elegantly written memoir I've read in ages. It tugged me onward like the best suspense novel, though I couldn't help lingering time and again to savor its wisdom." --Armistead Maupin, author ofTales of the City "An extraordinarily articulate chronicle of how the sickness of our time can spawn spiritual awakening and compassion." --Ram Dass, author ofBe Here Now andGrist For the Mill "Brave, beautiful and brilliantly observed." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) show lessTags
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Mark Matousek is the author of two award-winning memoirs, Sex Death Enlightenment and The Boy He Left Behind, as well as When Youre Falling, Dive and Ethical Wisdom: The Search for a Moral Life. A featured blogger for Psychology Today (where his Ethical Wisdom column appears bi-monthly), Huffington Post, and Turn, he contributes to numerous show more national publications, and is a popular teacher, speaker, and coach. Visit him at www.markmatousek.com. show less
Mark Matousek is a LibraryThing Author, an author who lists their personal library on LibraryThing.
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