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ISBN: 9781478960287
| Runtime: | 9.58 Hours |
| Category: | Fiction |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
A 2015 New York Times Book Review Notable Book
A National Book Award Longlist Selection
A Carnegie Medal for Literature Longlist Selection
A New York Times Editor’s Choice
An Oprah Pick of Ten Titles to Pick Up Now
A NPR’s Great Reads Selection of 2015
Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
A Washington Post Best Audiobook of 2015
A Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2015 Selection for Story Collections
Pearlman writes with warmth about the predicaments of being human. The title story involves an affair, an illegitimate pregnancy, anorexia, and adolescent drug use, but the true excitement comes from the evocation of the interior lives of young Emily Knapp, who wishes she were a bug, and her inner circle.
"The Golden Swan" transports the reader to a cruise ship with lavish buffets-and a surprise stowaway-while the lead story, "Tenderfoot," follows a widowed pedicurist searching for love with a new customer anguishing over his own buried trauma. Whether the characters we encounter are a special child with pentachromatic vision, a group of displaced Somali women adjusting to life in suburban Boston, 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 to us with unsurpassed generosity.
In prose as knowing as it is poetic, Pearlman shines a light on small, devastatingly precise moments to reflect the beauty and grace found in everyday life. Both for its artistry and for the recognizable lives of the characters it renders so exquisitely and compassionately, Honeydew is a collection that will pull readers back time and again. These stories are a crowning achievement for a brilliant career and demonstrate once more that Pearlman is a master of the form whose vision is unfailingly wise and forgiving.
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
“[Honeydew is] especially effective on audio, thanks to Suzanne Toren’s artistry…She creates credible, complicated characters…and Toren’s performance puts a unique stamp on each remarkable piece. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award.” —AudioFile
“The stories in Honeydew excel at capturing the complex and surprising turns in seemingly ordinary lives.” —New York Times Book Review
“Honeydew is brilliant. Edith Pearlman is among the greatest of the greats.” —Lauren Groff, New York Times bestselling author of The Monsters of Templeton
“The twenty stories are vinegary, rueful, droll, humane, and endlessly inquisitive.” —Wall Street Journal
“A generous collection of depth and sensitivity featuring a range of
unusual characters.” —O, The Oprah Magazine
“Prepare to be dazzled…Vivacity and zest enliven every page. Body language is wittily caught…Personalities are keenly explored.” —Sunday Times (London)
“This affecting collection periscopes into small lives, expanding them
with stunning subtlety…Magical…Sensual.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Another collection of closely observed, often devastating stories…exemplary tales, lively and lovely.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“In the tradition of Joyce, Chekhov, Updike, and Munro, Pearlman’s surprising, memorable stories are joys to behold.” —Shelf Awareness
“Pearlman not only writes with bewitching clarity, she also fathoms
much about our inner lives and relationships that is unexpectedly
wondrous.” —Booklist (starred review)
“A stellar collection…the mysteries of love and friendship, the indignities and compensations of growing older, and the knotty complexities of the human heart.” —Tom Perrotta, New York Times bestselling author of The Leftovers
I think that Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories should be the book with which Edith Pearlman casts off her secret-handshake status and takes up her rightful position as a national treasure. Put her stories beside those of John Updike and Alice Munro. That's where they belong. —Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto, State of Wonder, and This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
Edith Pearlman is an absolute master of the form: these are stories that abjure tricks and flash for brilliantly drawn characters, classic construction, and language that sings and aches all at once. —T.C. Boyle, author of The Women
Edith Pearlman's curiosity and highly empathetic intelligence squire the reader through a marvelous variety of physical and psychological landscapes. But the collection also reveals the lovely common denominator of her fiction, a buoyant grace, which she gently exhorts us to recognize in everyday life. —Chris Adrian, author of A Better Angel
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In a world where volume is often prized over what's actually been said, it is a great comfort to know there are writers like Edith Pearlman, who works outside the noise and writes alongside Chekhov and Frank O'Connor and other master storytellers. —Yiyun Li, author of Gold Boy, Emerald Girl
So many lives seethe inside this book! It's a city, a country, a world, rendered in devastating detail and delivered from one woman's sparkling and rare imagination. If you read, write, or teach short fiction -- if you believe gorgeous, scrupulously made literature nourishes the soul -- then you must read Edith Pearlman. —Anthony Doerr, author of Memory Wall
Edith Pearlman is a master of the short story . . . and we're lucky to have Binocular Vision, this generous book of new and selected stories. Pearlman's characters . . . are complicated, fully alive. You can't stop reading, because you know they'll astonish you on the very next page. —Alice Mattison, author of Nothing Is Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn
These quiet, elegant stories add something significant to the literary landscape. —Roxana Robinson, New York Times Book Review
Pearlman peels back the surface of the conventional and reveals the more complicated emotions underneath... All of the pieces here have been exquisitely arranged to make this book. Themes recur; narratives speak to one another--the effect is not so much of a sampling as of a suite. Of all the remarkable things about Binocular Vision, this may be the 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 perserverance, and that we are almost always greater than the sum of our parts. —David Ulin, Los Angeles Times
Author
Author Bio: Edith Pearlman
Edith Pearlman (1936-2022) was an author whose story collection Binocular Vision won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award, as well as the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Story Prize. The author of several other story collections, she also received the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in the short story. Her widely admired stories have been reprinted numerous times in The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and The Pushcart Prize.
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| Available Formats : | Retail CD |
| Category: | Fiction |
| Runtime: | 9.58 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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