Pilgrims
(2007, original release: 1997)
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
FICTION/GILBERT,E/SC
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Penguin Books, 2007
©1997
©1997
DESCRIPTION
210 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780143113379 (pbk.), 0143113372 (pbk.)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Originally published: Boston : Hougton Mifflin, 1997
A short story collection follows the fortunes of a diverse group of characters on singularly American pilgrimages, including an East Coast girl who dares a cowboy to whisk her away to the Rocky Mountains
CONTENTS
Pilgrims --
Elk talk --
Alice to the east --
Bird shot --
Tall folks --
Landing --
Come and fetch these stupid kids --
Many things that Denny Brown did not know (age fifteen) --
Names of flowers and girls --
At the Bronx terminal vegetable market --
Famous torn and restored lit cigarette trick --
Finest wife