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| Pilgrims | 
 enlarge | Manufacturer: Penguin
Category: EBooks
List Price: $14.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 5183
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
ASIN: B000W915ZS
Publication Date: September 25, 2007
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Product Description
Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of a short story collection, Pilgrims -- a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and winner of the 1999 John C. Zacharis First Book Award from Ploughshares -- and a novel, Stern Men. A Pushcart Prize winner and National Magazine Award-nominated journalist, she works as writer-at-large for GQ. Her journalism has been published in Harper's Bazaar, Spin, and The New York Times Magazine, and her stories have appeared in Esquire, Story, and the Paris Review. At age seventeen, Eustace Conway, arguably thepinnacle of American masculinity, left the comfortof his middle-class suburban home to live inthe woods. Back then he considered himself a manof destiny -- a true frontiersman, who, by example, could lead soulless consumer-happy Americans to a more natural state of existence. He hasn't succeeded -- despite twenty years of trying -- but he hasn't given up. Below, Elizabeth Gilbert muses about what drives this extraordinary man, and how meeting him changed her.
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 Really Quite Good January 26, 2000
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
After always looking forward to reading Ms. Gilbert's funny/intellegent/quirky articles in SPIN magazine (who she sadly doesn't seem to write for anymore) the high quality of this book wasn't much of a surprise. The charaters are well formed and easy to empathize with. The fact that all the stories dwell on the same theme of lonliness and searching for connection, it reads more like a novel than a randomly selected set of stories. If you liked this, read her articles on Chinese Dams, Feminist Pornography and Renesance Faires in SPIN, or her essay on Buckle Bunnies in the KGB Reader. I can't wait for her novel to come out.
Nearly flawless, always gorgeous June 8, 1999
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
It's rare that I like the majority of stories in a short story collection. In this case, all but one are perfect, and even the imperfect piece -- the last in the volume -- is pretty damned good. Buy this book: you won't regret it.
Satisfying indeed. January 2, 2002
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
A friend's interest in Gilbert spurned me to read this short story collection, which I found very enjoyable. Gilbert has a way of creating a very vivid scene and situation, so as to wrap your interest around the characters promptly. Then, naughty as it is, she ends her stories almost always leaving you to wonder how everything will play out. It's more that she's giving you a glimpse into another world, rather than relating a brief story from beginning to end.
Good September 18, 1997
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Elizabeth Gilber is certainly a talent. The tales were diverse and interesting but I felt cheeted of completeness and closure. Each character faces his or her own pilgramage in each short story, and in the end, they are no closer than when they began. There is no "ah hah" so this is it. I felt each one was the begining of a to be continued series
A Fine Collection September 21, 2000
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Elizabeth Gilbert is a talented writer and some of these stories in this collection are absolutely terrific. These stories will capture your imagination. There were several that I wished Gilbert would have made into novels. I really enjoyed reading these stories, but I did read Stern Men, her novel, first and as strong as these stories are, Stern Men is even stronger, so I was a little disappointed. All in all, however, this is a terrific collection by a very talented writer and I look forward to seeing more of her work.
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