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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.
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Praise for The Lone Pilgrim
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A writer whose rare gift it was to evoke contentment, satisfaction, and affection - New YorkerA comedy of manners that reminds us that manners are comic and should be enjoyed as such - New York TimesAn infallible recipe for happiness: read as much Laurie Colwin as you canColwin 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 ReviewOne of the last century's great fiction writers - Electric Literature
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