Pilgrims (short story collection)
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Pilgrims is a collection of twelve short stories
Short Stories
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 by American
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 author Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth M. Gilbert is an American author, essayist, short story writer, biographer, novelist and memoirist. She is best known for her 2006 memoirs, Eat, Pray, Love, which as of December 2010, has spent 199 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list, and was also made into a film by the same...

. It was named a New York Times Notable Book, won a Pushcart Prize
Pushcart Prize
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, and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award.

Several stories from the collection were staged at the Greenwich Street Theater in March and April 2000, with continued runs at the Tribeca Playhouse in January and April 2001.

Stories

  1. Pilgrims (first appeared in Esquire
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    )
  2. Elk Talk (first appeared in Story)
  3. Alice to the East
  4. Bird Shot
  5. Tall Folks (first appeared in Mississippi Review)
  6. Landing
  7. Come And Fetch These Stupid Kids
  8. The Many Things That Denny Brown Did Not Know (Age Fifteen)
  9. The Names of Flowers And Girls (first appeared in Ploughshares
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    )
  10. At the Bronx Terminal Vegetable Market
  11. The Famous Torn And Restored Lit Cigarette Trick (first appeared in The Paris Review)
  12. The Finest Wife (first appeared in Story)

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