**A dazzling collection of stories that masterfully weaves together
tales of love and desire in all its forms, exploring the universal
complications of the heart--and the mysteries of being fully human in
the world. - "Colwin's book is itself a love affair." --The New York
Times
**
In these thirteen stories, a book illustrator is enamored with her
publisher, as she pines for her previous lover; a photographer
recovering from her second marriage in far-off Inverness, Scotland,
befriends a college student new to romance; two academics conducting a
long distance affair are reunited, only to find that their circumstances
have changed dramatically; and the perpetually stoned young wife of a
popular college professor struggles to tell her husband that she's been
high since the day they met. Humorous, tender, and moving, The Lone
Pilgrim is the work of a master of the short story form.