The best short story writer in the world'Susan Hill'This book is a spectacular literary revelation'Sunday TimesThe collected stories of an award-winning,modern classic American writer who has been compared to Alice Munro,John Updike - and even Anton ChekhovTenderly,incisively,Edith Pearlman captured life on the page like no one else. Spanning forty years of writing,moving from tsarist Russia to the coast of Maine,from Jerusalem to Massachusetts,these astonishing stories reveal one of America's greatest modern writers.Across a stunning array of scenes-an unforeseen love affair between adolescent cousins,an elderly couple's decision to shoplift,an old woman's deathbed confession of her mother's affair-Edith Pearlman crafts a timeless and unique sensibility,shot through with wit,lucidity and compassion.Part of the Pushkin Press Classics series: timeless storytelling by icons of literature,hand-picked from around the globeEdith Pearlman (1936-2023) published her debut collection of stories in 1996,aged 60. She won The National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for Binocular Vision. She published over 250 works of short fiction in magazines,literary journals,anthologies and online publications. Her work won three O. Henry Prizes,the Drue Heinz Prize for Literature,and a Mary McCarthy Prize,among others. In 2011,Pearlman was the recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award,which put her in the ranks of luminaries like John Updike and Joyce Carol Oates.
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Publisher: Pushkin PressISBN: 9781805330479Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
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(Pearlman's stories are) meticulously made,miraculously precise,and so fully populated that you marvel one mind could invent so many distinct human beings from scratch.One of the great discoveries of the decade was the Jewish American Pearlman,who had been writing for four decades before this collection gave her the acclaim she thoroughly deservedThis book is a spectacular literary revelation... With Binocular Vision a new fictional planet,richly populated and suffused with warm lucidity,comes into view.'An unsung masterHer writing is intelligent,perceptive,funny,and quite beautiful... Maybe from now on everyone will know of Edith Pearlman.Among the best-kept secrets in US short fiction for decades... Make up for lost time now and catch up with Pearlman.Gold medal class...seems beyond compare...The traditional literary system has worked,though grievously slowly,in giving a genius of the short story her due.The equal of Updike or Munro... This book will make your summer shine.These are stories to linger over.The literary discovery of 2013... lucid,witty,devastating... a masterclass on how to deliver literature's bittersweet blow in simply a few pagesNo devotee of the short-story form will be unfamiliar with this quietly gifted American artist... She has written more great stories than one writer could expect,even during a 40-year career. Unfair Life's like thatEdith Pearlman is the best short story writer in the world. A lot of people know that. More willThere remain a few dedicated practitioners of the short story,and Edith Pearlman is one to be cherishedEdith Pearlman is a new literary It girl... a fortifying pleasure to readOne of America's great modern short-story writersPearlman's stories themselves offer a subtle optical training,showing us people in all their funniness and frailty... and teaching us to understand what we seePrecise and exquisite... a book of wonderPearlman peels back the surface of the conventional and reveals the more complicated emotions underneath... Of all the remarkable things about Binocular Vision,this may bethe most compelling,that it enacts a worldview in thirty-four precise and subtle movements,reminding us that if connection is elusive,there is nobility in perseverance,and that we are almost always greater than the sum of our partsThese stories are note-perfect... By gathering some earlier pieces along with her newest work,this volume shows an artist who has never stopped developingWhat makes Pearlman so good Like Didion,she's a master of the spare sentence,of the restrained emotion... But where Didion's detachment can feel ruthless,Pearlman's is largely compassionate,sometimes even faintly amused. It is the detachment of a good psychologist or a favorite aunt,the kind whose home you want to visit again and againEdith Pearlman's stories will be national treasuresGive this wonderful collection to fans of such classic short story writers as Andre Dubus and Alice Munro and novelists like Nicole Krauss. They will thank youRare is the collection that rewards many divings; rarer still when all of the work,whether early or new,is confident in its artistry,when the hours spent reading escape notice in the way only complete absorption allows... No schmaltz,no judgment,no tugging at the heartstrings,just a steady gaze and a gradual widening of the focus as Pearlman lets readers in on something wonderful and searing that had been there all along
Edith Pearlman
Visit the Edith Pearlman author pageAnn Patchett
Ann Patchett is an American novelist and independent bookshop owner,whose works include State of Wonder and the multi-award winning Bel Canto. Her latest novel,The Dutch House,is published in September 2019.
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