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    Pilgrims

    Written by Elizabeth Gilbert

    Narrated by Coleen Marlo

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    About this audiobook

    The debut by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love; a PEN/Hemingway Award finalist and New York Times Notable Book

    Look out for Elizabeth Gilbert's new book, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, on sale now!

    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateApr 1, 2008
    ISBN9781436211376
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    Pilgrims
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    Elizabeth Gilbert

    Elizabeth Gilbert is the Number One New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and several other internationally bestselling books of fiction and non-fiction. Her story collection Pilgrims was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway award; The Last American Man was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her follow-up memoir to Eat Pray Love, Committed, became an instant Number One New York Times bestseller. She has published two novels, Stern Men and The Signature of All Things, which was longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize. She lives in New Jersey. www.elizabethgilbert.com @GilbertLiz

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    • 3/5
      Pizazz is the word that comes to mind after reading the short story collection Pilgrims by Elizabeth Gilbert. These are twelve stories that chart the paths of various oddball characters across disparate landscapes through eccentric and unpredictable situations and adventures. In the title story, Pennsylvanian Martha Knox gets a job as a ranch hand in Wyoming and challenges the cowboy narrator to run off with her across the Rocky Mountains. In “Elk Talk,” Jean and Ed, living on a remote property at the edge of the Wyoming wilderness, have taken in Jean’s nephew Benny after an accident has rendered Benny’s mother comatose. On Halloween, with Ed away at a conference, Jean and Benny meet their new neighbours, the Donaldsons, and as the eerie and unsettling encounter unfolds, Lance Donaldson successfully demonstrates a device that mimics an elk’s call. “The Many Things That Denny Brown did not Know (Age Fifteen)” (one of several tales with a cumbersome title) tells the story of naïve teen Denny Brown, whose frequent confusion regarding the behaviour and motives of the people around him, including his parents, actually comes to seem like a sort of savant wisdom. And “The Famous Torn and Restored Lit Cigarette Trick” revolves around the volatile and erratic temperament of Hungarian immigrant Richard Hoffman, his long involvement with his brother-in-law, magician Ace Douglas, Douglas’s magician/flautist daughter Esther, and a rabbit named Bonnie. Gilbert writes prose that never seems to stop moving. Her stories vibrate with a kind of dynamism, events tumble over each other and off the page. Undeniably entertaining, these stories are also witty and crammed with detail. Readers will notice that Gilbert sometimes uses elision to move her plots forward, skipping years of a character’s life in order to get to the part that interests her, ie: “She was married to him for forty-three years, and then he died of a heart attack.” – from “The Finest Wife.” There is also an aspect of the writing that can seem to some extent random: occasionally, in her rush to enumerate the events of a character’s life, the events themselves can seem plucked out of thin air, listed perhaps for shock value or humorous effect but adding little to the story or our knowledge of the character. The extraneous detail can be a distraction, since you believe it will be relevant later, but then it isn’t. Still, this is an impressive collection from a writer whose career since the publication of this debut volume has been one triumph after another.
    • 3/5
      These are well written stories, and well read on the audio CD version. They're diverse in their story lines and sometimes funny. I had a consistent problem with them, though. And maybe it's just me, but after each story ended I thought, "and then what?" It's as though Elizabeth Gilbert opens the door to a little drama unfolding and then closes it before the drama plays out. For those who like to exercise their imagination, this book would be pleasurable. For those (like me) who like a bit more closure to a story, not so much.