Binocular Vision
(Sprache: Englisch)
Tenderly, observantly, incisively, Edith Pearlman captures life on the page like few other writers-its dilemmas, its loves, its complexity.
Spanning 40 years of writing-and from tsarist Russia to London during the Blitz, from Central America to the coast...
Spanning 40 years of writing-and from tsarist Russia to London during the Blitz, from Central America to the coast...
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Tenderly, observantly, incisively, Edith Pearlman captures life on the page like few other writers-its dilemmas, its loves, its complexity.Spanning 40 years of writing-and from tsarist Russia to London during the Blitz, from Central America to the coast of Maine, from Jerusalem to the fictional suburb of Godolphin, Massachusetts-these astonishing stories show a writer of the most exquisitely turned prose, with a sens- ibility all her own: imaginative, compassionate, funny and wise.
Autoren-Porträt von Edith Pearlman
Edith Pearlman, born in 1936, published her debut collection of stories in 1996, at age 60. Last year, she won The National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for Binocular Vision. She has published over 250 works of short fiction in magazines, literary journals, anthologies and online publications. Her work has 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 puts her in the ranks of John Updike, Joyce Carol Oates, and other luminaries.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Edith Pearlman
- Maße: 12,8 x 19,8 cm, Taschenbuch, Englisch
- Verlag: Pushkin Press
- ISBN-10: 1908968508
- ISBN-13: 9781908968500
- Erscheinungsdatum: 04.07.2013
Sprache:
Englisch
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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. -- Sam Leith Financial Times This book is a spectacular literary revelation -- Peter Kemp The Sunday Times An unsung master -- Megan Walsh The Times Her writing is intelligent, perceptive, funny, and quite beautiful... Maybe from now on everyone will know of Edith Pearlman. -- Roxana Robinson New York Times Book Review Among the best-kept secrets in US short fiction for decades... Make up for lost time now and catch up with Pearlman. -- Ben Felsenburg Metro 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. -- Mark Lawson Guardian The equal of Updike or Munro... This book will make your summer shine. -- Boyd Tonkin Independent These are stories to linger over. Daily Mail
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