Librarian's Note: An alternate cover edition can be found here In April, 1992, a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, a party of moose hunters found his decomposed body. How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of Into the Wild. Immediately after graduating from college in 1991, McCandless had roamed through the West and Southwest on a vision quest like those made by his heroes Jack London and John Muir. In the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car, stripped it of its license plates, and burned all of his cash. He would give himself a new name, Alexander Supertramp, and, unencumbered by money and belongings, he would be free to wallow in the raw, unfiltered experiences that nature presented. Craving a blank spot on the map, McCandless simply threw away the maps. Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister, he vanished into the wild.

Set in the contemporary Paris of American  expatraites, liasons, and violence, a young man finds  himself caught between desire and conventional  morality. James Baldwin's brilliant narrative delves  into the mystery of loving with a sharp, probing  imagination, and he creates a moving, highly  controversial story of death and passion that reveals the  unspoken complexities of the heart.

Vinnar av kritikarprisen 2001. "En av Ragnar Hovlands merkeligste - og fineste - bøker. I tillegg til humoren, de underfundige detaljene og de beske, men samtidig varme replikkvekslingene, er det et vemod, en mystisk smerte og et melankolsk savn over beretningen. Lindemann er dratt ut for å finne Johanna, jenta han var glad i, og som han no innser han burde valt den gongen det enno var mogleg. På vegen møter han Tomas i Dalen og den unge jenta Liv, som blir med på turen. Ei vinterreise er også ei dagbok. Han som skriv har fått vite at han er sjuk, og gjennom eit år formidlar han i skrift menneska rundt han, musikken han høyrer på, bøkene han les, samtalar, tankar og reiser. Langs desse to vegane foldar romanen seg ut til ei hovlandsk historie om små ting og store spørsmål fortalt med boblande humor og mildt alvor.