Pilgrims
by Elizabeth Gilbert
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Author: Elizabeth GilbertEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-09-25
ISBN: 0143113372
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Summary: 5 Stars
I really enjoyed losing myself in Pilgrim's random slice of Americana. Each story is a microcosm of its own dishing up a multitude of human foibles and plights. I much preferred the audio format over the text version. Since adding it to my car's audiobook playlist, I have listened to the collection almost like a favorite album. I enjoy the stage-like performance of the narrator and, of course, the story crafting of the author. Narrator Coleen Marlo gives each story its due like equally loved children. She does justice to the written word with her mastery of nuance. She builds each character and modulates her narration to suit the widely divergent tales and their psychological geographies. Most of Gilbert's pilgrims have classic American vernacular accents. Marlo bags the usual stereotypical vernacular and gives the characters carefully inflected personalities that up the zing on the dialogue. Though it is easy to assume that Gilbert heard very specific voices as she wrote-- or even lived through-- these tales it's certain that Marlo herself has infused the stories with some American adventures and sensibilities of her own--a direction that had the author applauding I'm sure once she heard the outcome of their collaboration.
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