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Binocular vision book by edith pearlman biography

          Edith Pearlman's new and selected story collection, Binocular Vision, won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the National Book..

          This volume of 34 stories from across her career has popularised the view that an American writer from the decade that produced John Updike.

        1. This volume of 34 stories from across her career has popularised the view that an American writer from the decade that produced John Updike.
        2. Edith Pearlman, born in , published her debut collection of stories in , at age Last year, she won The National Book Critics Circle Award for.
        3. Edith Pearlman's new and selected story collection, Binocular Vision, won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the National Book.
        4. Binocular Vision is a book of new and collected works, with thirty-four stories in all—twenty-one older stories and thirteen new.
        5. Most of the stories in Binocular Vision are from Pearlman's three previous collections, and were written over a period of forty years.

          6. &#;Cheever, Paley, Spark: these, I realize, are some big names. But Pearlman deserves the comparisons, and this is the point toward which I’ve been meandering: Pearlman is our greatest living American short story writer, and 'Honeydew' is her best collection yet.&#;
          - Boston Globe

          &#;We write in a culture that favors the heft of the novel.

          Better still if the novel in question is large enough to be wielded interchangeably as a doorstop and a weapon. To commit oneself wholly to the short story, as Edith Pearlman has done, suggests not only a gift for exploding the boundaries of the form, but something of a contrarian spirit.

          Binocular Vision reveals a true American original, a master of the story Edith Pearlman Author Biography.

          And where on earth would literature be without its great contrarians? Nowhere good. If “Binocular Vision” launched Pearlman, rightly, into the spotlight, “Honeydew” should cement her reputation as one of the most essential short story visionaries of our time.&#;
          - New York Times

          &#;Pearlman’s stories — slightly old-fashioned in their use of conceit; refreshin