Edith Pearlman Books

"Our greatest living American short story writer" Boston Globe Honeydew is the first collection from Edith Pearlman since Binocular Vision, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and a 'spectacular literary revelation' (Sunday Times). Over the last few decades, Edith Pearlman has staked her claim as one of the great practitioners of the short story. Her understanding and skill have earned her comparisons to Anton Chekhov, John Updike and Alice Munro. Her latest work, gathered in this stunning collection of twenty new stories, is an occasion for celebration. The stories in Honeydew are unmistakably by Pearlman; whole lives in ten pages. They are minutely observant of people, of their foibles and failings, but also of their moments of kindness and truth. Whether the characters are Somalian women who've suffered circumcision, a special child with pentachromatic vision or a staid professor of Latin unsettled by a random invitation to lecture on the mystery of life and death, Pearlman knows each of them intimately and reveals them with generosity.

Winner of the first annual Spokane Prize for Short Fiction, Love Among the Greats is a magnificent world tour of characters, tones, and fictional structures, all of them brought with a stunning restraint and clarity reminiscent of Joyce's Dubliners. Edith Pearlman's characters are children, old women, young men, rabbis, toy makers, lovers, invalids, immigrants, schmoozers, angels, and fools; all of them perfectly real and accessible, all of them drawn with a kind of comic quietude that only excellent writers can sustain.

The new collection of stories from the author of the award-winning Binocular Vision.

Presents a collection of short stories that focus on the trials and tribulations of a group of Northeasterners.

These are the collected stories of Edith Pearlman. She writes about the predicaments, odd, wry, funny and painful of being human.

Edith Pearlman präsentiert zwanzig Erzählungen, die menschliche Beziehungen und komplexe Gefühle meisterhaft beleuchten. In ihren Geschichten, die von zurückhaltender Virtuosität geprägt sind, werden unkonventionelle Situationen und überraschende Entdeckungen geschildert. Eine literarische Entdeckung von großer Qualität.