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Edith Pearlman's Binocular
Vision are the collected stories of an
award-winning author who has been compared to Alice
Munro, John Updike and even
Chekhov
Tenderly, observantly, incisively,
Edith Pearlman captures life on the page like few other
writers. She is a master of the short story, and this is
a spectacular collection.
'This book is a spectacular
literary revelation... With Binocular Vision a
new fictional planet, richly populated and suffused with
warm lucidity, comes into view.'
Peter Kemp, The
Sunday Times
'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
'[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
'An unsung master.'
Megan
Walsh, The Times
'[These stories are] pearls
that encapsulate resonant moments... Make up for lost
time now and catch up with Pearlman.'
Ben Felsenburg,
Metro
'Pearlman writes about the
predicaments odd, wry, funny and painful of being human
. . . [Her] view of the world is large and
compassionate, delivered through small, beautifully
precise moments. Her characters inhabit terrain that all
of us recognize, one defined by anxieties and longing,
love and grief, loss and exultation. These quiet,
elegant stories add something significant to the
literary landscape.' - The New York
Times
'The surprise literary hit of the year to
date... The complexity and mess of human lives,
beautifully rendered in (often funny) tales.' - Lionel
BarberFinancial Times
'The equal of Updike
or Munro... This book will make your summer shine.' -
Boyd TonkinIndependent
'These are stories to
linger over.' Daily Mail
Edith Pearlman, born in 1936,
published her debut collection of stories in 1996, at
age 60. In 2011, 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 also the recipient of the
PEN/Malamud Award, which puts her in the ranks of
luminaries like John Updike and Joyce Carol
Oates.
Her fans include T.C. Boyle, Ann Patchett and
Chris Adrian
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