Binding: Kindle Edition
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
Format: Kindle Book
Label: Penguin
Manufacturer: Penguin
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: 2007-09-25
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date: 2007-09-25
Studio: Penguin

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.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Pilgrims fulfills
Comment: I fell in love with Gilbert's writing from Eat, Pray, Love. This compilation of short stories did not disappoint. I had to stop between each story and rest a bit before starting the next because my brain would not let the previous story go.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Pilgrims
Comment: The condition of the book was excellent.
I am a fan of Elizabeth Gilbert, however the open ended quality of this book left me a bit exasperated.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Pilgrims
Comment: This is an incredibly well written book, and Elizabeth Gilbert is my new hero. However, I like her other books much better. Eat, Love Pray is fabulous.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Pilgrims
Comment: I expected more. I love Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love and I thought I would enjoy this one, but I was wrong. Her short stories went nowhere and had no real significance to them. The characters really didn't leave an lasting impression on me either. I was dissapointed with this book, however, I would still be interested to see what Gilbert puts out in the future.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Satisfying indeed.
Comment: 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.

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