Lone Pilgrim by Laurie Colwin

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Lone Pilgrim: Stories by Laurie Colwin. 1981 Knopf, first edition, 211 pages. In a retrospective on Laurie Colwin in the New York Times: "Colwin suggests that our lives are never d efinitively settled, but evolve as a series of glittering, memorable shards. Her fiction reflects her sense of the shadow around the edges that haunts even our moments of most buoyant, intense delight." This is a collection of thirteen stories, some of which was published in the New Yorker, where she regularly published. Condition: Jacket in good condition with some wear, crease on front flap, book in VG condition "I have been the house pet to several families: friendly, cheerful, good with children, and, most important, I have an acute sensitivity to the individual rhythms of family life." Show more