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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.
Satisfying indeed. 
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.
Pilgrims fulfills 
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.
Pilgrims
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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