The Lone Pilgrim
$24.15
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
9 February 2026
Summary
‘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, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399614436 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1399614436 |
| Author: | Laurie Colwin |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 9 February 2026 |
| Weight: | 210g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 20mm |
| Series: | W&N Essentials |
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Critics Review
An infallible recipe for happiness: read as much Laurie Colwin as you can – Emma StraubColwin is a bard of burgeoning adulthood * New Yorker *One reads with fascination the steps by which lovers stumble upon their forthright declarations – Joyce Carol OatesColwin’s writing remains as fresh as asparagus, as reliable as roast chicken – Katherine HeinyColwin loves her characters and reveals them as clearly in joy as other authors do in anguish * Washington Post *
About The Author
Laurie Colwin
Laurie Colwin is the author of five novels: Happy All the Time, Family Happiness, Goodbye Without Leaving, A Big Storm Knocked It Over, and Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object; three collections of short stories: Passion and Affect, The Lone Pilgrim, and Another Marvellous Thing; and two collections of essays, Home Cooking and More Home Cooking. Laurie Colwin died in 1992.
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