The Lone Pilgrim

By: Laurie Colwin

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Paperback | 10 February 2026 | Edition Number 1

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224 Pages

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Thirteen stories about love, privacy, and emotional adventure, full of Colwin's classic sharp wit and compassion

'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

About the Author

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.

Industry Reviews

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

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