
Especially as it sounds like he is doing something very similar to the book," said Carolyn Kellogg of Jacket Copy, the book blog of the Los Angeles TimesĬooper's decision to publish breaks a veil of secrecy over his thoughts about the break-up of his marriage and his former wife's subsequent rise to global fame. "It sounds like a very well-timed book with the movie coming out. The movie features Spanish actor Javier Bardem as the man Gilbert eventually finds love with on a one-woman odyssey that saw her explore Italian food and language in Rome, stay at an ashram in India and then find love on Bali. That timing looks fortuitous, as publicity for the eagerly awaited film of Eat, Pray, Love will be starting to ramp up for a 2011 release in cinemas. Displaced is due to be published in autumn 2010. No doubt it was a journey that was made more difficult for Cooper after Gilbert's account of their marital failings became a global bestseller. Details of the book have been kept secret by its US publisher, Hyperion, but it involves a "search for purpose" across the Middle East and the developing world.
