The Lone Pilgrim explores the universal complications of the heart-and the challenges of being a human in the world. Here we meet a woman and the man afraid to marry her, a girl and the poet who cannot stop writing about her, and an illustrator enamored with her publishers. Written with candor and grace, this collection is the work of a master of the short story form. 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 Marvelous Thing-and two collections of essays, Home Cooking and More Home Cooking. Colwin died in 1992.
