The Lone Pilgrim

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This collection of stories about love and privacy is serious, funny, tender, and alive with the elegance and spirit that characterise Laurie Colwin’s work. In these stories, the reader moves among young men and women: pianists, historians, book illustrators, architects; women who are composed and inimitably sassy; and men who are magnetic, adventurous in love, or fiendishly elusive. They are people who are experiencing, often for the first time, the starting, enriching, and maddening complications of adult life.

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‘Colwin is a bard of burgeoning adulthood’ New Yorker

Polly has been the house pet to several families: friendly, cheerful, good with children, happy to bask in the domesticity of other people’s lives – until she meets Gilbert.

Cordy, raised with the spartan, pleasure-rejecting habits of the very rich, cannot stomach the pleasures of his beloved Jane’s cooking, her lavender soap, her adoration.

And Ann, the perpetually stoned young wife of a popular college professor, tries to find the courage to tell her husband that she’s been high since the day they met.

Humorous, tender and moving, here are tales of love and desire in all its forms, with each story told in Laurie Colwin’s irresistible, inimitable style.

A W&N Essential

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Weight 210 g
Dimensions 19.6 × 12.8 × 2 cm
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Cover

Paperback
Pages

224
Language

English
Edition

|Short stories
Dewey

813.54 (edition:23)
Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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