A collection of stories about love and privacy that are serious, funny, tender, and alive with elegance and spirit. "Adroitly concocted."-- New York Times Book Review
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Laurie Colwin writes about relationships with the kind of clarity we might wish we possessed in the midst of them, but instead of being a cold observer, she takes us straight into the hearts of the characters she portrays with simplicity and sympathy. The women are serious, funny, sensitive, and smart. The men are charming and utterly irresistible cads or rangy men with large, tender hearts. All are complicated, interesting, and vivid people who work as illustrators, professors, architects, ranchers; all are steady, happy, untroubled - until their lives are completely undone by their hearts. Laurie Colwin's gift is her ability to capture pivotal moments: a young woman crosses to adulthood when she's kissed unexpectedly by her friend's father; a woman realizes her lover now hates her for all the things he fell in love with her for; a girl discovers to her horror that she's fallen in love with exactly the boy her parents wanted her to fall in love with; the "lone pilgrim" of the title story yearns for the settled life of her married friends, only to find herself hesitating on the brink of her desired happiness. In Laurie Colwin's deft but gentle hands, we see the subtle twists of relationships and know what awaits these lovers long before they do. In spite of the falls and bruises of love, the reader comes away happy, feeling that love and life are messy, but ultimately satisfying. -- For great reviews of books for girls, check out Let's Hear It for the Girls: 375 Great Books for Readers 2-14. -- From 500 Great Books by Women; review by Margaret Liddiard
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About the Author
Laurie Colwin is the author of five novels: Happy All the Time, Family Happiness, Goodbye Without Leaving, Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object, and A Big Storm Knocked It Over; three collections of short stories: Passion and Affect, Another Marvelous Thing, and The Lone Pilgrim; and two collections of essays: Home Cooking and More Home Cooking. She died in 1992.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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This wonderful book is a brilliantly faceted jewel...,
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This review is from: The Lone Pilgrim: Stories (Perennial Fiction Library) (Paperback)
I do not know why I waited so long to read Laurie Colwin's fiction. This was wonderful! You will see brilliant flashes of observation and insight, humor, and wisdom-- along with characters that are a lot like the most interesting people you know, crossing each other's paths for good and ill. It is difficult to write short stories that are this concentrated and perfect. If you're a Danielle Steel groupie, this is not for you-- Laurie Colwin was intelligent, subtle, and brilliant.
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A cozy, warm read that challenges one's views of domesticity,
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This review is from: The Lone Pilgrim: Stories (Perennial Fiction Library) (Paperback)
This selection of short stories provides a cozy, warm read. These are perfect for reading in the middle of winter, under a blanket, while drinking a great cup of tea. Colwin's stories revolve around love and domesticity, but they also focus on tensions within that realm. A good read.
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Sweet without being saccharine,
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This review is from: The Lone Pilgrim: Stories (Perennial Fiction Library) (Paperback)
If you are looking for emptinees, nihilism and the essential alone-ness of the human spirit, don't look here. If you want glamour, fabulous wealth and the secret lives of supermodels, go find Jackie Collins. Laurie Colwin's characters are peope you might actually know. This is short fiction without the despair - sweet and quirky without resorting to Women's Magazine Happy Ending Cliches. Great reading for a rainy afternoon
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