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Pilgrims |  | Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Publisher: Penguin
Category: eBooks
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Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 30098
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Pages: 224
Number Of Items: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
ASIN: B000W915ZS
Publication Date: September 25, 2007
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When it appeared in 1997, Elizabeth Gilbert-s story collection, Pilgrims, immediately announced her compelling voice, her comic touch, and her amazing ear for dialogue. -The heroes of Pilgrims . . . are everyday seekers- (Harper-s Bazaar)-brave and unforgettable, they are sure to strike a chord with fans old and new.
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 Really Quite Good January 26, 2000
Eric Cason (Citizen of the World!)
23 out of 24 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
16 out of 18 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
ostawookiee (Winston-Salem, NC USA)
8 out of 8 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.
Audiobook version of Pilgrim's May 30, 2009
Katherine Relf-Canas (Belmont, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I really enjoyed losing myself in Pilgrim's random slice of Americana. Each story is a microcosm of its own dishing up a multitude of human foibles and plights. I much preferred the audio format over the text version. Since adding it to my car's audiobook playlist, I have listened to the collection almost like a favorite album. I enjoy the stage-like performance of the narrator and, of course, the story crafting of the author. Narrator Coleen Marlo gives each story its due like equally loved children. She does justice to the written word with her mastery of nuance. She builds each character and modulates her narration to suit the widely divergent tales and their psychological geographies. Most of Gilbert's pilgrims have classic American vernacular accents. Marlo bags the usual stereotypical vernacular and gives the characters carefully inflected personalities that up the zing on the dialogue. Though it is easy to assume that Gilbert heard very specific voices as she wrote-- or even lived through-- these tales it's certain that Marlo herself has infused the stories with some American adventures and sensibilities of her own--a direction that had the author applauding I'm sure once she heard the outcome of their collaboration.
No praise high enough December 10, 1997
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Of all the darned good stories I've come across, Elizabeth Gilbert writes the darnedest goodest, perhaps "the best." "The Famous Torn and Restored Lit Cigarette Trick" in particular has all the mistifying charms of the sleight of hand illusions she describes therein: it's dexterous and surprising, baffling and revelatory. Be warned--Gilbert writes seatbelts-off short fiction that reinvigorates the sleepy genre and makes it buy us all a drink.
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