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 * Author's introduction Long after writing an article for //Outside//, Jon Krakauer remained haunted by the particulars of McCandless' starvation and by unsettling parallels between the boy's life and his own. His fascination bordered on obsession. His new book, //Into the Wild//, retraces a quest for self-knowledge that ultimately led to death.**

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Sean Penn met with the family to express his desire to bring Chris's story to the big screen, but they weren't ready. "I think we were close, but it was still such a raw loss for them," he says. "I think they had felt very grateful to Jon for retracing [Chris's] steps. … Having had lightning strike once, I think that there was a shyness to take the chance in the hands of a filmmaker." __The Oprah Winfrey Show__

Chris's sister Carine, who helped Sean Penn write narration for //Into the Wild//, says her brother was a breed apart. "I think that Chris was someone who didn't waste his life wondering what other people would think of him. He lived his life wondering what he would think about himself," she says.