![]() ![]() No matter the situation in which her characters find themselves-an unforeseen love affair between adolescent cousins, a lifetime of memories unearthed by an elderly couple's decision to shoplift, the deathbed secret of a young girl's forbidden forest tryst with the tsar, the danger that befalls a wealthy couple's child in a European inn of misfits-Edith Pearlman conveys their experience with wit and aplomb, with relentless but clear-eyed optimism. These charged locales and the lives of the endlessly varied characters within them, are evoked with a tenderness and incisiveness found in only our most observant seers. ![]() Before then many learned people had never heard of her. Moss Last year Edith Pearlman received much acclaim after her fourth collection of stories, Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories, won the National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction. ![]() Summary: "Spanning four decades and three prize-winning collections, these 21 vintage selected stories and 13 scintillating new ones take us around the world, from Jerusalem to Central America, from tsarist Russia to London during the Blitz, from central Europe to Manhattan, and from the Maine coast to Godolphin, Massachusetts, a fictional suburb of Boston. Wisdom in Edith Pearlman’s Binocular Vision By Walter G. ![]()
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