num_pages: 400
description: People lie to themselves and lie to each other, and the lies they tell become their lives. Tom Wilcher, the hero of the second volume of Joyce Cary's First Trilogy, has been at various times a political activist, a closefisted lawyer, a self-sacrificing brother, and a dirty old man. But as he faces death his unfulfilled spiritual yearnings are uppermost in his mind.
language: English
title: To Be a Pilgrim
titlecomplete: To Be a Pilgrim
genres: Literature, Classics, Literary Fiction, Religion, Fiction
ratings_count: 165
series: The First Trilogy
publisher: NYRB Classics