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    The Lone Pilgrim

    Laurie Colwin

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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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    Praise for The Lone Pilgrim

    • A writer whose rare gift it was to evoke contentment, satisfaction, and affection - New Yorker

    • A comedy of manners that reminds us that manners are comic and should be enjoyed as such - New York Times

    • An infallible recipe for happiness: read as much Laurie Colwin as you can

    • Colwin writes with such sunny skill, and such tireless enthusiasm . . . One reads with fascination the steps by which lovers in one story after another stumble upon their forthright declarations - New York Times Book Review

    • One of the last century's great fiction writers - Electric Literature

    Laurie Colwin

    Laurie Colwin

    Laurie Colwin (1944-1992) was born in Manhattan and raised in Long Island, Chicago and Philadelphia. She attended Bard College and Columbia University and worked as a translator and book editor before selling her first story, at the age of twenty-five, to the New Yorker. She went on to publish eight critically acclaimed works of fiction and two beloved collections of essays and recipes - Home Cooking and More Home Cooking. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, 'if anyone wrote eloquently and magnificently about affairs of the heart, it was Laurie Colwin.

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